That's not how conspiracy theories and magical thinking work. I grew up around folks who thought fluoride was in the water to brainwash us. I had an English teacher who thought the major news media was hiding the fact that we discovered the remains of Noah's Ark.

Humans have thought patterns like this by default. We invented things like science to _prevent_ us from falling into those traps.

Flat earth, anti-vax, Qanon, etc. are more of the same. If there's a difference it's the scale and speed afforded by social media.