They really dragged this topic through the mud:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory"Some researchers suggest that conspiracist ideation—belief in conspiracy theories—may be psychologically harmful or pathological[14][15] and that it is correlated with lower analytical thinking, low intelligence, psychological projection, paranoia, and Machiavellianism.[16] Psychologists usually attribute belief in conspiracy theories and finding a conspiracy where there is none to a number of psychopathological conditions such as paranoia, schizotypy, narcissism, and insecure attachment,[9]"
Versus the pre-clown'd version in 2015:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150216150053/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theoryThis is a fun practice to look up wikipedia articles before the world went insane so you can realize it was just one massive shift from deranged individuals