RE: Four reasons why people believe in conspiracy theories
"Back in 2007, Patrick Leman wrote in the New Scientist that belief in
conspiracy theories is on the rise thanks to the distribution power of the
Internet.
Take the JFK conspiracy, for example: In 1968, two of every 10 Americans
believed it to be true. In 1990, nine of 10 Americans believed it to be true."
The internet wasn't even around in 1990, not in the way we know it today.