You've been conditioned to believe conspiracy theories. Or have you?!

A smart conspiracy theorist never wears a tinfoil hat. According to research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology students in 2005, tinfoil can actually amplify mobile communication and satellite frequencies, including those used by the Federal Communication Commission. Based on these findings, the researchers (jokingly) speculated that tinfoil hats were a ploy propagated by the government to track the thoughts of US citizens.

So remove the headgear: Thanks to evolution, you’re probably curious about dozens of conspiracies – even in the face of logic and reason. Conspiracies are fun to dissect and debate, but there’s a deeper appeal: Humans have a natural scepticism towards authority and power.

‘We descended from primates that tended to notice dangerous, hidden things, like a predator in the grass,’ says Michael Shermer, PhD, presidential fellow at Chapman University and bestselling author of Why People Believe Weird Things. ‘Our ancestors were the paranoid ones who assumed the worst and survived.’

According to Shermer, a conspiracy theory concerns two or more people plotting in secret to gain an immoral or illegal advantage over someone else. Whether rooted in a Wikipedia deep dive