We humans have a lot of cognitive biases — but only a few tend to correlate with COVID-19 conspiracies

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Whenever we're confronted with new information (see: the internet), we tend to use cognitive shortcuts to try and make sense of it all. But as we reconfigure that information to fit our understanding of reality (or choose to dismiss it entirely), we can arrive at totally false conclusions.