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In reply to the discussion: Scientific illiteracy baffles me [View all]DetlefK
(16,423 posts)It's a core feature of people who believe in conspiracy-theories:
They are unimportant nobodies in real life, so they invent the conspiracy-theory, because if this conspiracy exists, that makes them automatically special because they are then heroes and keepers of forbidden wisdom and stuff like that.
I have seen the same with Flat-Earthers. They love to engage in all sorts of wild speculations and wild theories about this and that, while ridiculing the sheeple who simply believe what the scientists tell them.
They pride themselves in being investigative freethinkers untethered by the biases of the scientific community... and yet they are extremely biased in favor of their pet-theory and if any experimental evidence contradicts their theory, there's two solutions for that:
1. Your evidence is fake.
2. Your evidence disproves this one theory, but it doesn't disprove these dozens of other theories! HAHA!!!
As a Flat-Earther once said in a Youtube-video: "Just by knowing that Earth is flat, you are already one of the smartest people on the planet!"