Steven Pinker
On Conspiracy Theory Enthusiasts
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Human ingenuity enabled our hunter-gatherer ancestors to survive in unforgiving ecosystems. Similarly, today's proponents of conspiracy theories and enthusiasts of the supernatural effectively navigate their own ecosystem. They raise children, have jobs, have roofs over their heads, and there is food in their refrigerators.
Stephen Pinker (born 1954) is a Canadian-American scholar and one of the foremost science authors and communicators in the world today.
