Reply #113: You can turn skeptics into believers by administering

[Basileus Basileon]

L-dopa. It's kind of interesting. Believers in conspiracy theories are better at picking out patterns from visual and audio noise, but are far more likely to "identify" nonexistent patterns. Increasing dopamine levels increases the subject's pattern-finding abilities but destroys their noise filters, causing them to pick out all sorts of nonexistent patterns from visual noise and harming their abilities to tell real words from made-up ones.