Why did people believe and propagate conspiracy theories? Why was this on the rise? She didn’t know, exactly. Yes, the specifics of conspiracy theories were always wrong, but it was in response to a genuine distrust of authority, and a search for alternative explanations wasn’t completely baseless. After all, maybe the conspiracy theorists had been wrong about almost every single detail with regard to the alien presence on Earth, but they hadn’t been wrong about the presence itself.
