Neuroscience and Critical Thinking: Understand the Hidden Pathways of Your Thought Patterns- Improve Your Memory, Make Rational Decisions, Tune Down Emotional ... Expectations (The critical thinker Book 3)

by Albert Rutherford

Conspiracy theories often develop into "closed belief systems," or ones that can't be changed based on evidence and arguments that refute them. This is because their beliefs and cognitive processes evolve to defend their ideas from outside dissent instead of being receptive to other information. Anything that would contradict their beliefs is dismissed as untrue or twisted into further evidence of the beliefs themselves being true;