Study finds no evidence for a link between conspiracist thinking and a tendency to disbelieve in coincidences.

It's dogmatic to ignore the subjectivity of life, to make sweeping generalizations about the deterministic paths individuals happen to fall into, especially since many of those paths are the result of an impoverished environment.

I was one of the types you're describing but if anything, it inspired me to outgrow the type of pseudo-intellectualism you are ascribing to that persona and to understand the importance of objective truths.

This idea that the educational system is the proper intermediary of instruction is simply untrue. Some people can learn comfortably in that environment, some can't. As for psychotropics, they should be studied more and prescribed only under proper medical supervision but understand that the initial research has indicated that many of them have positive attributes.

Generalizations about conspiracies and conspiracy theorists are silly. It's incredibly subjective, many are false but some are true. History is full of verifiable conspiracies, so it's completely rational to be wary of our institutions. A lot of conspiracy theorists post pseudo-intellectual garbage that's damn near cringe-worthy but shifting through the dirt, you find gems of truth and then the mainstream media reports on those gems days or weeks, if not months later.

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