From a purely neuroscience standpoint, conspiracy theories are perfect examples of a now more commonly understood phenomena where by people who hold a belief are given evidence against their view only become more entrenched and convinced of their original held belief.
Photon already mentioned this, for any conspiracy theorist to actually convert to the other side they themselves have to reason themselves out of it, and threads like these where they are shown facts only serves to strengthen their beliefs in the conspiracy.
There is also a host of psychological matters at work here which I won't go into, the distrust of authority and other issues but its very interesting how as we are learning more in neuroscience we can more accurately predict behavior.
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