> This trend matters: conspiracy beliefs have been [linked](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11024355/) to lower compliance with public health recommendations, such as vaccination and other preventive measures, as well as to weakened trust in institutions. These can both undermine societal cohesion, reduce cooperation, and erode collective responses to crises
silentspectator27 on
It’s true, half my neighbours and acquaintances talk about climate changing/controlling weapons, a weird mix of Illuminati/Mason/ take your pick rule the world and nearly half believe or are willing to believe about chemtrails with a few flat earthers.
OrangeRadiohead on
Nordic counties: fuck that shit. Hard facts, that’s us.
uxgpf on
Just shows the level of education.
Ofc it happens everywhere. Not only in America. If public schools are shit and don’t teach critical thinking.
The lesson here is. Invest in free and equal education for all. Make all schools follow the same rules so that parents won’t go school shopping.
Chesthairs-galore on
looks like antarctica, neat
NocturneFogg on
A lot of it here is showing level of bleed over from US politics. There’s a cohort here, mostly but not exclusively on the fringes of the right, who spend far too much time fully immersed in American politics – use the same talking points, same terminology, listen to the same podcasts, follow the same influencers. I’d reckon 1 in 10 or so. You’ll hear it regurgitated by the likes of taxi drivers etc.
Compare the splodge for 2021 Vs 2024 which is likely early COVID vs post COVID too, which is the other one that brought them out of the woodwork.
It’s not remotely big enough to have actual traction in politics, but it’s there and can be quite loud.
crossdtherubicon on
Support for science is essential. The cause of these opinions may be a toxic mix of declining quality of public education plus social media influences.
The underlying premise is that there are a few extremely powerful people or organizations that actively undermine the well-being of the majority, and a sense of powerlessness. The premise proves more and more true.
LongShotTheory on
I always did feel Nordic at heart.
BlimundaSeteLuas on
I’m fairly educated, academically at least, and I don’t really believe that everything that is told by the super powerful is actually true.
This doesn’t mean I believe in conspiracy theories blindly. There’s no doubt that the earth is round or that the man has been to the moon.
But do you really believe in everything the people in power say? How much shit has been going on around the world that takes years or even decades to be leaked? Look at the Epstein files for example.
Everything is about power and money. I don’t think they’re necessarily hiding the cure to cancer, because there isn’t really a single cancer that can be cured. I do believe that we’re getting better and better treatments with time.
But in the end, the amount of money involved in healthcare is staggering. I have no doubt that pharmaceutical companies prioritize money. And this means that sometimes not the best choices, health wise, will be made.
Blindly believing everything that you’re told is also dangerous, imo.
Also, for those of you saying that this correlates to the level of education, this might be true. But it also correlates to the level of corruption in each country which will lower the trust of their citizens in the ones in charge.
f_sharp on
As a Spanish citizen, I am so fucking ashamed wtf
Hackeringerinho on
Wooo we getting marginally better.
RJTG on
Doesn‘t fit experience, Check the graph.
Austria not changing at all. Every fifth is crazy? Seems fitting.
Has to to be good scientific work, no further Check necessary.
Final_Alps on
Social media is propagandists wet dream. It is plague on the free thought. We are all being constantly manipulated to believe in nonsense.
Usually we measure it in obvious impacts like these but all of us are being manipulated. It’s about time we ban the American platforms and figure out how to build something new and better.
sir_racho on
I’m beginning to think social media ban until 21 might help
ChesterChapters on
Spain and Portugal have moved so far up!
YAOZdesigner on
Some countries people really live in an alternate world…. can’t believe that 70% of a population believe in those shit tho. My conspiracy theory is that those chart have been made so the highest gdp/people country hate on the lowest ones
Facktat on
I find these questions too brought. I don’t call myself a conspiracy theorist and I don’t believe that our governments intentionally spread covid but I can imagine that there is some medication for chronic illnesses that is hidden due to commercial interest (doesn’t have to be cancer) and also while I do not believe that Viruses were intentionally created to restrict freedoms, I can imagine that they were artificially created (and were spread in an accident) and that some governments used it to restrict personal freedoms (not necessarily western governments but I am looking at China and banana republics to which I only count the US post 2024).
I also think that it is hardly surprising that in a time where we learn that the wildest conspiracy theories about the pedophilic elite in the US were true the entire time that people also start to believe in other conspiracy theories which may or may not be true.
Low_discrepancy on
The fact that France, the country with the largest homeopathy labs in the world is in the lower quarter of this, makes me quite worried for the rest of Europe.
ProfessorNoPuede on
Why isn’t this a horizontal bar chart? Radar graphs are unreadable.
Training_Chicken8216 on
What really bothers me is that these conspiracy theorists try to find the most unlikely conspiracies imaginable. Viruses developed and released to give an excuse to control the social order?
Guys, if you want to spin up a conspiracy about how social order is internationally centrally managed, the Mont Pelerin Society is *right there*.
caelestis42 on
Makes me proud in Sweden
tesfabpel on
The cure for cancer exists but it’s hidden from the public, yet Steve Jobs (and other millionaires / billionaires), with all his money, died from cancer…
specifikator on
Clear pattern with ex soviet or socialist (Yugoslavia) countries together with some Mediterranean countries where ppl are used to not really working much but rather seat around and complain.
feed-me-cheesecake on
had to check if i was on r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT
Jester-252 on
I would love someone to explain the cure for cancer theory
Like how are they going to make money from it if they don’t sell it?
Bobilar on
This is the worst graph I have ever seen
feichinger on
Those are two particularly odd choices for conspiracy theories, though.
1. Historically, hiding beneficial research from the public for profit has happened a lot. Europe in particular is still dealing with the fallout from this in engineering, and particularly climate science is known for this (oil companies that hid or stopped climate-friendly alternatives). In medicine it’s _less_ common, but not unheard of either (though it often goes the way of under-marketing for cheaper and better alternatives, rather than outright burying results).
2. Viruses have been produced in government labs, that part is factually true. The motivations are less clear. Considering some of the documents we see out of Davos every now and then, that becomes even murkier. Given how much bioweapon research we have historically seen, even moreso. Does that mean COVID was a deliberately engineered pandemic? Probably not. Is it completely outlandish to think it might have been, though? I dunno. I wouldn’t, but I can see why.
Putting these two under a “fact vs fiction” label is _quite_ a framing – and I’m sure that will drive even more scepticism. With so many much clearer conspiracy theories to choose from, why pick two that are nowhere near as clear? Well, because a lot of people “believe” them, probably, and that makes for a great “but science!” headline…
WanderlustZero on
Thank you Nordics for being the smart kids in the room, as ever
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Research: [https://www.nationalgeographic.nl/wetenschap/a64512170/complottheorieen](https://www.nationalgeographic.nl/wetenschap/a64512170/complottheorieen)
Authors of the infographic [https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/fact-versus-fiction](https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/fact-versus-fiction)
> This trend matters: conspiracy beliefs have been [linked](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11024355/) to lower compliance with public health recommendations, such as vaccination and other preventive measures, as well as to weakened trust in institutions. These can both undermine societal cohesion, reduce cooperation, and erode collective responses to crises
It’s true, half my neighbours and acquaintances talk about climate changing/controlling weapons, a weird mix of Illuminati/Mason/ take your pick rule the world and nearly half believe or are willing to believe about chemtrails with a few flat earthers.
Nordic counties: fuck that shit. Hard facts, that’s us.
Just shows the level of education.
Ofc it happens everywhere. Not only in America. If public schools are shit and don’t teach critical thinking.
The lesson here is. Invest in free and equal education for all. Make all schools follow the same rules so that parents won’t go school shopping.
looks like antarctica, neat
A lot of it here is showing level of bleed over from US politics. There’s a cohort here, mostly but not exclusively on the fringes of the right, who spend far too much time fully immersed in American politics – use the same talking points, same terminology, listen to the same podcasts, follow the same influencers. I’d reckon 1 in 10 or so. You’ll hear it regurgitated by the likes of taxi drivers etc.
Compare the splodge for 2021 Vs 2024 which is likely early COVID vs post COVID too, which is the other one that brought them out of the woodwork.
It’s not remotely big enough to have actual traction in politics, but it’s there and can be quite loud.
Support for science is essential. The cause of these opinions may be a toxic mix of declining quality of public education plus social media influences.
The underlying premise is that there are a few extremely powerful people or organizations that actively undermine the well-being of the majority, and a sense of powerlessness. The premise proves more and more true.
I always did feel Nordic at heart.
I’m fairly educated, academically at least, and I don’t really believe that everything that is told by the super powerful is actually true.
This doesn’t mean I believe in conspiracy theories blindly. There’s no doubt that the earth is round or that the man has been to the moon.
But do you really believe in everything the people in power say? How much shit has been going on around the world that takes years or even decades to be leaked? Look at the Epstein files for example.
Everything is about power and money. I don’t think they’re necessarily hiding the cure to cancer, because there isn’t really a single cancer that can be cured. I do believe that we’re getting better and better treatments with time.
But in the end, the amount of money involved in healthcare is staggering. I have no doubt that pharmaceutical companies prioritize money. And this means that sometimes not the best choices, health wise, will be made.
Blindly believing everything that you’re told is also dangerous, imo.
Also, for those of you saying that this correlates to the level of education, this might be true. But it also correlates to the level of corruption in each country which will lower the trust of their citizens in the ones in charge.
As a Spanish citizen, I am so fucking ashamed wtf
Wooo we getting marginally better.
Doesn‘t fit experience, Check the graph.
Austria not changing at all. Every fifth is crazy? Seems fitting.
Has to to be good scientific work, no further Check necessary.
Social media is propagandists wet dream. It is plague on the free thought. We are all being constantly manipulated to believe in nonsense.
Usually we measure it in obvious impacts like these but all of us are being manipulated. It’s about time we ban the American platforms and figure out how to build something new and better.
I’m beginning to think social media ban until 21 might help
Spain and Portugal have moved so far up!
Some countries people really live in an alternate world…. can’t believe that 70% of a population believe in those shit tho. My conspiracy theory is that those chart have been made so the highest gdp/people country hate on the lowest ones
I find these questions too brought. I don’t call myself a conspiracy theorist and I don’t believe that our governments intentionally spread covid but I can imagine that there is some medication for chronic illnesses that is hidden due to commercial interest (doesn’t have to be cancer) and also while I do not believe that Viruses were intentionally created to restrict freedoms, I can imagine that they were artificially created (and were spread in an accident) and that some governments used it to restrict personal freedoms (not necessarily western governments but I am looking at China and banana republics to which I only count the US post 2024).
I also think that it is hardly surprising that in a time where we learn that the wildest conspiracy theories about the pedophilic elite in the US were true the entire time that people also start to believe in other conspiracy theories which may or may not be true.
The fact that France, the country with the largest homeopathy labs in the world is in the lower quarter of this, makes me quite worried for the rest of Europe.
Why isn’t this a horizontal bar chart? Radar graphs are unreadable.
What really bothers me is that these conspiracy theorists try to find the most unlikely conspiracies imaginable. Viruses developed and released to give an excuse to control the social order?
Guys, if you want to spin up a conspiracy about how social order is internationally centrally managed, the Mont Pelerin Society is *right there*.
Makes me proud in Sweden
The cure for cancer exists but it’s hidden from the public, yet Steve Jobs (and other millionaires / billionaires), with all his money, died from cancer…
Clear pattern with ex soviet or socialist (Yugoslavia) countries together with some Mediterranean countries where ppl are used to not really working much but rather seat around and complain.
had to check if i was on r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT
I would love someone to explain the cure for cancer theory
Like how are they going to make money from it if they don’t sell it?
This is the worst graph I have ever seen
Those are two particularly odd choices for conspiracy theories, though.
1. Historically, hiding beneficial research from the public for profit has happened a lot. Europe in particular is still dealing with the fallout from this in engineering, and particularly climate science is known for this (oil companies that hid or stopped climate-friendly alternatives). In medicine it’s _less_ common, but not unheard of either (though it often goes the way of under-marketing for cheaper and better alternatives, rather than outright burying results).
2. Viruses have been produced in government labs, that part is factually true. The motivations are less clear. Considering some of the documents we see out of Davos every now and then, that becomes even murkier. Given how much bioweapon research we have historically seen, even moreso. Does that mean COVID was a deliberately engineered pandemic? Probably not. Is it completely outlandish to think it might have been, though? I dunno. I wouldn’t, but I can see why.
Putting these two under a “fact vs fiction” label is _quite_ a framing – and I’m sure that will drive even more scepticism. With so many much clearer conspiracy theories to choose from, why pick two that are nowhere near as clear? Well, because a lot of people “believe” them, probably, and that makes for a great “but science!” headline…
Thank you Nordics for being the smart kids in the room, as ever