@lauren@dalias@planettimmy Serious question: when has that ever been "better"? Folks like anti-vax cranks have existed since Jenner, I think the only thing that's really changed in our lifetimes is that the internet has made it possible for these folks to build communities where previously it was just a lone weirdo shouting on a street corner. A conspiracy theory is ultimately an appeal for meaning in an otherwise random, arbitrary, and chaotic universe, which our universe has always been.