What has really baffled me as a conspiracy theory as outlandish are the flat earth and hollow earth conspiracy theories. People then tend to assume that these bad events were intentionally caused by a group of bad people that operates in the shadows, that operates in secret. They don’t have the information and these blanks often involve - people tend to assume the worst. Jan-Willem van Prooijen: Conspiracy theories always start with a very big, frightening event - think of the 9/11 strikes or a disease epidemic, and people often want to make sense of that, they want to understand what happened, but then begin to typically fill in the blanks themselves.
Jan-Willem van Prooijen, associate professor of psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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