One thing that struck me when looking deeper into conspiracy theories is how some people manage to seek out the wrong truths, the blatant lies with apparent eas

One thing that struck me when looking deeper into conspiracy theories is how some people manage to seek out the wrong truths, the blatant lies with apparent ease, like as if you could mix any number of true and proven statements from textbooks and science publications and hide a single fake one in there and people so inclined would always pick the lie and reject the truths as suspicious. It's almost as if it was really working in a backwards way, as though flat-earthers knew darn well that of course the world is undoubtedly round, and contrails are not 'chemtrails', which is precisely why they reject these views, as though their minds had developed an auto-immunity disorder. On a related note, a good portion of votes in the last^W latest U.S. election also apparently came from voters who tossed a ballot against their own best interest (65% voted for GOP in the town where they allegedly 'eat the dogs and cats').