Say what you will about the article or his theory, but I thought this passage was really well written and concisely summed up an important observation:

    “‘That’s right’ is a feeling you get so that you can move on,” Burton told me.
    It’s a kind of subconscious laziness.
    Just as it’s harder to go for a run than to plop onto the sofa,
    it’s harder to reexamine one’s assumptions than it is to embrace certainty.
    At one end of the spectrum of skeptics are scientists, who by disposition or training resist the easy path;
    at the other end are conspiracy theorists, who’ll leap effortlessly into the sweet bosom of certainty.