Guardian: Why do pop stars fall for conspiracy theories?

Madonna did it, Ian Brown also, as well as MIA, Ice Cube, Wiz Khalifa, Deftones' Stephen Carpenter... Why? Guardian shortly tries to explain: "Music attracts mavericks and outsiders. The typical psychological profile of a conspiracy theorist – arrogant, stubborn, proudly heterodox – also fits many performers. Some are autodidacts, attracted to the juicy secret knowledge that you won’t get from the mainstream media, while lacking the analytical tools necessary to sort the wheat from the chaff. And given that musicians who express an interest in politics are disproportionately leftwing, it’s inevitable that a minority will drift to its furthest fringes. Prodigious weed-smoking may also play a part".