Conspiracy theories are projected toward things that are just very complicated to understand. "It's a self contained belief system," he says. No evidence can convince you that the conspiracy is not true, because that was just planted,. Right? So there's no nothing we could do"
Over the last few years, this show has devoted many shows to the psychology behind what we saw in the Capitol in January 2021. So, in this episode, we re-listen to three interviews on conspiratorial thinking to gain some perspective.
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