Why Do People Believe In Crazy Conspiracy Theories?
4 min readMar 17, 2021
By Katie Mather
Recently at lunch, a coworker brought up a podcast he had listened to recently that discussed Flat-Earthers — people who truly believe that the Earth is flat. It is bananas. And the discussion prompted me to give an unsolicited (and unofficial) TedTalk where I ranted about not understanding how people can be so invested in something that is so clearly…
