Humans are capable of believing in whatever they want. People will emphacize likelihood of a plane crash if they are dreading going somewhere and discount it if there is a vacation in paradise on the other end.
Combine that with an ultra-flexible/fundamentally ambiguous language, and it goes a long ways towards explaining Planet Earth, early 21st century!
Combine those with a what Kahneman calls System I brain and System II brain, and you’re quickly multi-d