The Believing Brain
www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-believing-brain
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
A common question of skeptics and science-based thinkers is How could anyone believe that? People do believe some really weird things and even some obviously false things. The more basic question is how we form all our beliefs, whether false or true.