us. And again, for good reason, you know, there are reasons we should be suspicious of government activities, corporate insider trading and shenanigans to gain an unfair profit over other companies. So on this, this sort of thing happens all the time. So then from there, you can kind of try to break it down. So you mentioned some of those causes here. I'm making a distinction between proximate causes and ultimate causes. Proximate causes are like which races or genders or ages or political orientation are more or less likely to believe conspiracy theories. And the answer is it depends which ones. So race, for example, is not a predictor of overall conspiracism, but it is of specific conspiracies. African Americans more likely to believe that the CIA planted crack cocaine in inner cities or invented AIDS to decimate black populations. Whites are less likely to believe that, but whites are more likely to believe that the government or some nefarious organizations are plotting to take (18/57)
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