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University of Illinois-Chicago: Americans are Bad at Recognizing Conspiracy Theories When They Believe They're True
April 09, 2024
CHICAGO, Illinois, April 9 (TNSres) -- The University of Illinois Chicago campus issued the following news release:

Conspiracy theorists get a bad rap in popular culture, yet research has shown that most Americans believe conspiracy theories of some sort. Why then, if most of us believe conspiracies, do we generally think of conspiracy theorists as loony?

New research from the University of Illinois Chicago found that it's because people are quite bad at identifyi . . .

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