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Do People Sincerely Believe Conspiracy Theories That They Endorse? (online.ucpress.edu)
5 points by Ariarule 51 days ago
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Or perhaps they want to fit in with their social group? Or perhaps they like the attention? Or perhaps there are financial incentives to propagating fashionable ideas? Or ...
Not a single one of those explain the endorsement in OP of the completely-new "highly bizarre raccoon army conspiracy theory"