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"“The best predictor of belief in a conspiracy theory is belief in other
conspiracy theories,” says Viren Swami, a psychology professor who
studies conspiracy belief at the University of Westminster in England.
Psychologists say that’s because a conspiracy theory isn’t so much a
response to a single event as it is an expression of an overarching
worldview."
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