3: Why people believe outlandish conspiracy theories

JUN 28, 202118 MIN
COVID Conspiracies

3: Why people believe outlandish conspiracy theories

JUN 28, 202118 MIN

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Back at the end of 2019, if someone had told you that a global pandemic was going to sweep the world in 2020, would you have believed them?

Could you have imagined that people all around the world would get sick and that nearly four million would die of a disease no one had heard of? That planes would be grounded, restaurants closed and even haircuts would be off limits?

It would have seemed far-fetched to most of us in 2019. So maybe it’s not that surprising that some people have been easily swayed by the conspiracy theories that have flourished with the pandemic.

In today’s episode of Covid Conspiracies Jennifer Bieman of the London Free Press looks at why so many of us have turned to outlandish theories to try to understand what has happened.

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