Same reason people believe in the Earth being Flat, Vaccines causing Autism, or any other insane bullshit that doesn't stand up to reason.
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People are emotion driven. The idea of a conspiracy is somehow more soothing to them than a chaotic world where no one's really in control. Also many people are, frankly, fragile cowards, and the idea of admitting they are wrong is too much for their ego to take.
People's beliefs are social. Once they're in a social group that believes something, they're very unlikely to change. It's not even wholly conscious. But if someone's in conspiracy circles, abandoning the beliefs means losing all those friends. That feels like Danger to the brain, and most people will reject it.
Reading all the comments here, I think that it is wild that anything other than what the US says is a ‘conspiracy theory’, what I can gather from this is that no one probably has any concrete idea about who was responsible, so there might be different views, but apparently any other view other than what the US tells you is a ‘conspiracy theory’
That's not at all what I'm reading. You're probably confusing, like with most conspiracy theorists, shoving a hypotheses into the holes of our knowledge - with zero evidence to support it - with an actual theory.
I've argued with multiple people who swear the war in Iraq was over 9/11.
People are just fucking stupid
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Sometimes there’s enough ambiguity around an event that any attempted exact reconstruction will likely be wrong in some details. Some people can’t accept that ambiguity, and take the lack of a single, definitively-proven version as evidence that the “real” version was suppressed.