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1、The Review of Why People Believe in Conspiracy TheoriesThis article was written by Sander van der Linden, which was published in the Scientific American. The author talked about the conspiracy theories in this article. How conspiracy theories develop and why people tend to believe conspiracy theorie
2、s? This article will give us the answer of these questions.In order to make the article be attraction, the author list a series questions, such as “did NASA fake the moon landing?” which be believed conspiracy. And then the author introduced the previous studies about conspiracy theories, that many
3、scholars regarded the conspiracy theories as paranoid and delusional. Later the author put forward main subject, which was why a lot of people are beginning to believe that conspiracy theory. In the following, the author talked about the reason that many people tend to believe conspiracy theories. A
4、n important conclusion that the author draw from their analysis is that people dont tend to believe in a conspiracy theory because of the specifics, but rather because of higher-order beliefs that support conspiracylike thinking more generally.On the one hand, the conspiracy theory could bring publi
5、c mistrust and undermine democratic debate, so many people has the way of thinking that they didnt believe authority, they would like to believe in conflicting conspiracy theories. On the other hand, because of believing conspiracy theories, many people began to keep distance to with important polit
6、icizes and social issues according to an essay, which is linked to anti science. In the end, the author came to a conclusion that is “The truth is not always convenient”.In the modern society, the true or false of messages difficult differentiate. In the entertainment circle, many stars often come o
7、ut scandal. I think many people believe all that is true at first. But as many truth was disclosed, people gradully lost the trust of these messages, and then if similar things happen again,people will think it is conspiacy. As the author said, conspiracy theories had sown the seeds of distrust amon
8、g the public, thereby undermining democratic debate. So the government should actively to provide truthful and transparent information for the masses. And then the author gave a definition to the conspiracy theories, pointing out that the mistake of conspiracy theories was that they got everything t
9、o “plan” and “deliberately”. I think conspiracy theory only the means of some people for a particular purpose or a way to satisfy oneself curiosity.Although we may feel relax and comfort when we make the problems simple and take the governments explanation as a hoax, the truth is here and it not change because of us. So we should think of the various problems that the government happens with a scientific, facing with all kinds of problems actively. Dont too easy to believe any surface or commen-sense words.
