Percy writes:
Sometimes I wonder if there are two types of conspiracy theory believers, or only one type. If there's two types then one type actually believes the conspiracy theories, while the other type knows they're total bullshit but acting like they believe them serves their purposes.
There are people cynically creating these fantasies - some of them probably overseas actors. Some of them are real domestic loonies and there are others exploiting the situation and amplifying it - Fox news, Trump, various fundamental Christian organisation, rightwing wing nuts etc. It's possible that the original conspiracies
The followers believe, the creators, not always.
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"Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.