“We live in a nation with 3.2×10^8 people—so you can find large, in absolute terms, numbers of people…”
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We live in a nation with 3.2×10^8 people—so you can find large, in absolute terms, numbers of people who believe anything (e.g., that “contrails” are some sort of mind-controlling gas being sprayed by the CIA etc.).
People who believe those weird-ass things might have similar views on politics (I have no idea, frankly, whether people who are anti-vax hold similar political outlooks).
But it is a logical fallacy to infer that therefore people who hold those views on politics generally believe in whatever weird things these small fringe groups believe in.
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Tags: dan kahan, cultural cognition, chemtrails, he's usually so mellow, that I get a kick out of it when he's pissed off, Conspiracy Theories.
