Magical Thinking in Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories (and What OCD Can Teach Us)

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Conspiracy theories are running rampant during the COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve written before about why people are prone to believing misinformation and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus, things like low health literacy and cognitive biases. But recently, I wondered if there wasn’t another factor in play, something that I was intimately familiar with…