Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Maybe I just find it upsetting that hundreds of scientists have spent 
> thousands of man-years pouring research into this lethal disease to find 
> out what causes it, but then some random person goes "hey, actually, I 
> think really you're all wrong - I don't have any logic or evidence, I 
> just believe this, for no particular reason". And now other people 
> actually *believe* this nonesense. And people are dying because of it.

  I have not fully understood why, but conspiracy theories are extremely
enticing, especially when properly presented.

  And believing conspiracy theories is not something exclusive to certain
types of people (ie. stupid ones), but also very intelligent, educated,
logically thinking people can get entrapped into believing some wacky
conspiracy theory. I have seen this first-hand. (Fortunately I have been
able to mostly talk them out of it.)

  Maybe this is something related to human psychology.

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                                                          - Warp

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