In particular, research suggests that conspiracy theories can be psychologically reassuring in situations like this — seeing conspiracies in randomness or attributing negative events to enemies can restore feelings of control when people encounter unpredictable threats. Until we can help people feel as if the situation is coming under control, we shouldn’t be surprised if they try to regain psychological equilibrium however they can.

That's from the very bottom of an August NYT piece about how conspiracy theories and myths and other misinformation have complicated the job of managing the ebola crisis in Africa.

And now, it's time for our own homegrown conspiracy-minded mythologizing to start infecting our discourse.

Here's a delusional dipshit at WND who thinks there just might be something to all the conspiracy theories that have started fermenting in the dark dank skulls of "conservatives" now that the icky black plague of ebola has arrived in the US:

Recent polls show that there is a crisis of confidence among the people. When the people lose all trust in their government because of the lies they have been told over and over again, theories begin to emerge about all sorts of things. We desperately need someone to rebuild the trust and restore faith in this government. The damage that has been done is almost irreparable.

My fear is that this has all been orchestrated from the very beginning. Who knows? Maybe the current administration needs this to happen so martial law can be declared, guns can be seized and the populace can be controlled. Once that happens … game over.

Yeah, who knows? Wheels within wheels man.

And the comments on that WND article are pure lunacy.

Oh well.