“Immune to Evidence”: How Dangerous Coronavirus Conspiracies Spread — ProPublica

“Immune to Evidence”: How Dangerous Coronavirus Conspiracies Spread — ProPublica

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“It’s an imbalance between skepticism for anything an official may say and complete gullibility for something some random dude on the internet will tweet out.”

Cognitive psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky says that COVID-19 conspiracy theorists enjoy a bottomless, never-ending pit of skepticism — so it’s better to focus your debunking efforts elsewhere. (ProPublica | 4 min read)