Britons are swallowing conspiracy theories. Here’s how to stop the rot | Hugo Drochon

Aliens exist and global warming is a hoax - these unbelievable beliefs are symptoms of people feeling threatened

Who believes in conspiracy theories, and why? That is the question asked in a five-year study at Cambridge University, which commissioned three surveys from YouGov (2015, 2016 and 2018) to get a sense of the phenomenon.

It turns that out 60% of British people believe in at least one of the 10 conspiracy theories we put to them. So, for instance, 8% think humans have made contact with aliens at Roswell but the US government is hiding it from us; 7% believe that global warming is a hoax invented to deceive people; and 10% agree that the truth about the harmful effects of vaccines is being deliberately hidden from the public.