Why do people ...

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Why do people believe claims which do not have a scientific basis?

    Sadly, the majority of us are simple minded beings that enjoy life to be simple and easy to understand. Before humans had science they had religion, which they put their faith in to gain a sense of understanding. Leaders of the ancient world found an easy way to explain to their people why and how things happened. “God made it so.” “To believe otherwise is heresy.” What humans needed before is the same as what the need now and what they’ll need in the future, the simple ape folk want a simple explanation. That is one possible reason for why people may think we never landed on the moon. the other; Because it is also human nature to question. Question what seems ridiculous. If my astronomy professor lectured to the class that today the sky will turn neon purple and the oceans bright yellow, I would question. I would seek answers as to why this would happen and would need to see for myself.

There is a few reasons, fear of uncertain outcomes and option attachment make decision-making seemingly overwhelming and daunting. The conflict forms from what is known and what is not. The remainder is imaginary and appears as doubt in the mind. This is the logical approach to something unknown by some people. If the feeling of stress is not something a person would normally pursue, the option is decided against.
Some great books that talk about these choice stresses can be found in Covert Persuasion. This book is a great asset in helping people overcome doubts within choice-making and option-attachment.

Option-attachment; in simple terms is when someone has their eyes on a certain item or service (1), but if said service or product (1) is chosen one looses out on the other option (2) and therefore decides against the current item (1) to reconsider this other item (2) later and no decision is made at this time.

Covert Persuasion is a book written and published by two salesmen with years of experience in the field of making sales and overcoming hurdles that were presented with each customer. It's helped me overcome my own indecisiveness and allowed me to conquer my own self-induced doubts. I'm sure you'll find it helpful when you employ some of their techniques.
As for Russell's Teapot, I agree, if one thing were asserted to be true without any premise or evidence without prior cultural indoctrination of said assertion being true one would be left to the psychiatric doctors for study.

The problems that some people are finding have a lot to do with the conflicts of knowing and not knowing. When there is a gap in memory one tends to fill this void with something imaginary, creating an intense motivation in curiosity to see if it is true through experiencing it in the external perceivable world. However, some people do the prior and skip the latter resulting in self-delusion.
The second has to do with painful memories. When a memory is painful, one may confound themselves by recalling a memory, stating a different method to what had happened, resulting in a disconnect from the emotional pain associated with the memory. However, this is known as self-deception.
The antithesis of self-deception is optimism. It appears ridiculous, but listen to just the following;
Instead of re-writing a memory, what did you learn from your experience? Almost always there is a tendency to lean towards something painful. However, the optimism of any experience is something learned, something gained, something ventured, and a new awareness.
An example might be the following, "I fell off my bike when I hit a pothole as I was riding down the road and it hurt."
Okay, what may appear to be something obvious is going to appear minuscule and seemingly unimportant. It is the small things that matter most, we are made of small things afterall, discounting them is discounting us as a whole.
So, the good thing about falling off a bike after hitting a pothole on the road is knowing that you got hurt from it. So riding into potholes causes pain. So, if this is true, what precautions may be taken to avoid pain next time?
1) Protective gear
2) Avoid potholes
3) Pick alternative riding areas void of potholes
Doing this will minimalize injury and increase opportunities to ride a bike over multiple terrains securely.

What this technique of optimism does is allows you to maintain the integrity of your memories and experience and the association to the pain and learning incentives of said experiences. Basically, you maintain your integrity, honesty, and memory recall. You become someone who understands the importance of your own awareness.
You may not understand what I am saying now, but perhaps you may understand later as you learn.
Knowing isn't even half the battle, as in GI Joe, knowing is an illusion, learning is what is important. Learn every moment, overwrite or include information about what you learn in your memories, but never dilute them with delusions without addressing the delusions actively through research. Yeah...that thing they forgot to tell you that is so important in life...*some assembly required*
When someone states that they know something, realize that what is stated may or may not be true at this moment; but for now at least that this person stated something shows something about this person. If this person ends up being RIGHT, than it shows that even you have the ability to do research to find out that they were in fact right.
Life isn't about them being right, it's about discovering WHAT IS RIGHT. If you allow their message to go un-addressed, you may as well dismiss the entire conversation except the fact that they stated it for later memory recall in later conversations. Some conversations are to see if a person learns, accepts, or denies what is right or true when it comes to relationships.

This is a lot of information to swallow. So don't. One of the basics in The Art of Deception is, "If something can't be proved or researched at the moment, simply choose not to believe it until such a time that the evidence may be collected and weighed."
It doesn't mean ignore. It means, take down the information, and use what you know right now to find out what you will know later.
The bible even talks about this;
2 Corinthians 13:12
"...Now I know in part; then I will know fully..."
What you know is like a bookmark oh-so-far along in a book to which you don't know how far or what the ending is like.
We aren't supposed to know all now, only then. That is what our curiosities motivate us to find, our own truths. So what if others don't believe you. At least you spoke your mind and told them something about you and what you are interested in. That is what IS important. If you find out later on that the information was false, you can retract what you said and make a new statement.
Afterall, to err is human. To accept this axiom is the best part of being human.
"I know that I am weighed only by how well I can learn; though I may be deceived into believing that I am weighed by what I know."