I Believe in Cue, or Is This Just a Con?

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There's a debate in cognitive psychology circles on to what extent we default the truth. Do we just believe whatever we hear, or are we naturally sceptical? Most people maybe listen art bell and they don't believe any of it, but it's entertaining. You can't push this stuff out and not at least come to embrace some part of it as being real. It makes the world more palatable r for a certain persuasion of people. People want to believe this. People desire it to be true. And i actually heard from people who were in screen writing classes with him,. The nion revolt persona is a little more refined but it's the same thing. Now that's only one

Michael Shermer speaks with Mike Rothschild, a journalist specializing in conspiracy theories, about QAnon and its followers.

On October 5th, 2017, President Trump made a cryptic remark in the State Dining Room at a gathering of military officials. He said it felt like “the calm before the storm” — then refused to elaborate as puzzled journalists asked him to explain. But on the infamous message boards of 4chan, a mysterious poster going by “Q Clearance Patriot,” who claimed to be in “military intelligence,” began the elaboration on their own. In the days that followed, Q’s wild yarn explaining Trump’s remarks began to rival the sinister intricacies of a Tom Clancy novel, while satisfying the deepest desires of MAGA-America. But did any of what Q predicted come to pass? No. Did that stop people from clinging to every word they were reading, expanding its mythology, and promoting it wider and wider? No. Why not?