A good book that collects the research results of studies in conspiracy beliefs with quite a few surprising and amusing consequences. It made me want to read more about the actual research and the psychology behind it.

I was on the fence about the conclusions the book was drawing until it came to the part that dealt with the conspiracy about the release of the covid from a lab in China and then - wham! - I realised it wasn’t talking about that at all. This book was written in 2015! It gives reasons why you might think that a worldwide pandemic had a specific cause like that.

In all, it explains why humans may be wired to think the way they do and how these biases have been useful to humans survival throughout our evolutionary history.

The ironic thing is that it questions some of the conspiracy theories that we, the reader, may hold as true and to protect them we might not believe this book is true and just part of a greater conspiracy.