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Have there always been this many jammin' idiots around?
Have there always been this many jammin' idiots around?
Have there always been this many jammin' idiots around?
Have there always been this many jammin' idiots around?
If Darwin was right, how do idiots manage to perpetuate themselves?
Agreed!Of course idiots are more correctly termed ignorant in most cases.
. . . “The best predictor of belief in a conspiracy theory is belief in other conspiracy theories,” says Viren Swami, a psychology professor who studies conspiracy belief at the University of Westminster in England. Psychologists say that’s because a conspiracy theory isn’t so much a response to a single event as it is an expression of an overarching worldview. . .
. . . our access to information has vastly improved, which you would think would have helped minimize such wild speculation. But according to recent scientific research on the matter, it most likely only serves to make theories more convincing to the public. . .
. . . 63 percent of registered American voters believe in at least one political conspiracy theory, according to a recent poll conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University. . .
. . . Conspiracy theories also seem to be more compelling to those with low self-worth, especially with regard to their sense of agency in the world at large. . .