SCIENTISTS: “We’ve produced the first-ever image of a supermassive Black Hole, 55-million light years away”
RESPONSE: “Oooh!”
SCIENTISTS: “We’ve concluded that humans are catastrophically warming Earth”
RESPONSE: “That conflicts with what I want to be true, so it must be false”
@Atosmania@dadooron@Remroum@hizzle7 There are key historic events that took place through the progression you’re showing. Present the whole story - what happened during each of these?
Hypothetically - bear with me for a moment - what if someone - say a reality TV star - spent years slandering an American President with a batshit crazy conspiracy theory about where that President was born?
Lies spread faster than the truth because people need lies more. It's easy to find confirmation for correct beliefs, but confirmation for mistaken ones is rare. So people with mistaken beliefs are starving for confirmation of them, and eagerly consume anything that offers it.