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what they authors chose to conclude their article with::

The observed tendency of conspiracy theory advocates to argue
against conventional narratives rather than in favor of particular
alternatives closely resembles this description of anomaly hunt-
ing, and also parallels Keeley?s (1999) observation that conspiracy
theories rely heavily on ?errant data? rather than on crafting
coherent alternative explanations (p. 117).
We argue that in fact,
anomaly hunting, or a xation on errant data, is a manifesta-
tion of the way conspiracism is structured as a worldview. In
general, conspiracy belief is not based around specic theories
of how events transpire, though these may exist as well. Instead,
conspiracism is rooted in several higher-order beliefs such as an
abiding mistrust of authority, the conviction that nothing is quite
as it seems, and the belief that most of what we are told is a lie.