They see patterns where there are none.

[mapuc]

I find this article very interesting-The last couple of weeks I have read a lot of thing my friends has posted on social media-Things I consider being nothing but conspiracy.

This Neuroscientist explain it very well

“People who believe in conspiracy theories have brains that are more prone to illusory pattern perception: aka finding connections when there are none.” The culprit behind this could be dopamine. “People with genetically higher levels of free dopamine are more likely to believe in one or more conspiracy theories.” After these beliefs take root, confirmation bias strengthens them.

https://www.iflscience.com/neuroscie...piracies-58152

To this I would like to add what I call secondary belief.

Do my friend really believe these things or do they believe it to stay inside the circle of friends ?
I don't know maybe all of them truly believe these thing or maybe som just believe to "stay inside"

Markus