Expensive and credible signals that someone believes something outlandish are powerful in-group identifiers. Flat earth, pizzagate, whatever it is, if you can a

Expensive and credible signals that someone believes something outlandish are powerful in-group identifiers. Flat earth, pizzagate, whatever it is, if you can access the mental machinery to double, triple, quadruple down on something obviously false regardless of evidence, you will have a strong group of friends who are easy to find.