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246. Nick Pope on UAPs, UFOs, Conspiracies, and Cover-ups
The Michael Shermer Show
Why People Believe in Conspiracy Theories?
One of my theories is that it's kind of a constructive racism. But yet it pays to be a little paranoid, because we have enough personal experience and historical experience of governments line and so forth. And isn't there even an evolutionary argument that i've heard a couple of people put forward that it's evolutionary advantageous to believe in conspiracy theories? So i don't ow, i don't know whether that actually, its is true.
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