@RickiTarr I’ve noticed conspiracy theories are popular among smart men who didn’t go to college or didn’t thrive there. Their belief in the superiority of street smarts over book smarts is important to them, and they relish opportunities to prove that people with higher education have nothing over on them.
Thus the idea of secret knowledge that provides a shortcut to knowing “what’s really going on” and that will show the educated man up as the fool he really is has a powerful hold.