It's younger people, not older people, who are more prone to buy into conspiracy beliefs, a new study shows.

When it comes to falling down a rabbit hole with conspiracy theories ― QAnon, the “Plandemic” conspiracy theory ― it’s young people, not older demographics, who are more prone to buy into such beliefs.

Age is the most significant predictor of conspiracy beliefs among all other factors, according to a study that was recently published in the journal Political Psychology. And it’speople under 35 who are consistently more likely to endorse conspiratorial ideas than any other age group.

“From age 35 on, susceptibility to conspiracy theories decreases relatively steadily across older age groups,” said Jean-Nicolas Bordeleau, a research Fellow at the Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia.

Political conspiracy theories are pushing more and more family relationships to the breaking point. It’s not uncommon to hear about siblings who are estranged over extremist political views or people who “lost” their family members to QAnon, a conspiracy theory that posits that a satanic cabal of elites and pedophiles is working behind the scenes to orchestrate global events and enslave children.

Conspiracy theories increasingly affect our elections, too; QAnon believers came out heavily for President Trump in recent elections; to them, Trump is a white-knight figure destined to bring down the aforementioned cabal. (That’s what’s made his current handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files such a divisive........

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