r/skeptic

• Conspiracy beliefs have important political correlates and consequences, which can undermine trust and participation in democratic processes.
• They are not the preserve of the ideological left or right, and are more common at ideological extremes, though may be strongest at the extreme right.
• There are reliable individual differences in a generalized predisposition to believe in conspiracy theories.
• This predisposition has been characterized as a conspiracy mindset, and more specifically a generalized political attitude.
• Problems with this characterization and alternative ways of understanding the ideological significance of conspiracy theories are discussed

Serious question. There is a lot of money being spent on this and I want to understand what the evidence actually says