Note that the Republican Party is also overwhelmingly the party of Evangelical Christians — who routinely deny science already and have done for decades.

These dimwits visit a creationism "museum" in Kentucky flanked by a "replica" of Noah's ark from the Christian Bible, which they insist is literally accurate, inerant work of history, which of course means they must deny science.

That's the mindset, which inevitably produces belief in conspiracy theory.