People who believe that the COVID-19 pandemic was a hoax are likelier to believe all sorts of other conspiracy theories, a new study suggests.
Believing in COVID-19 conspiracies may make people likelier to believe in other conspiracy theories down the road, a new study suggests.
Conspiracy theories hold that shadowy groups are secretly masterminding large-scale plots that affect the public. They range from the belief that aliens on UFOs create crop circles to the wild and unfounded idea that the moon landing was faked. "The widespread damage created by the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened people's anxiety, uncertainty, feelings of powerlessness, and has created friction between members of different social groups," the researchers wrote in the study."Such conditions represent a near perfect recipe for the proliferation of conspiracy theories."
The participants who believed that"COVID-19 was intentionally brought into the world for dark purposes" or that"the severity of COVID-19 was exaggerated" were more likely to believe that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was riddled with fraud or to espouse other theories, such as that “some UFO sightings and rumors are planned or staged in order to distract the public from real alien contact.
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