How do conspiracy theories like the '15-minute city' take hold?

The Iran war is now in its sixth month ‌and yet again, the US President is doing his best to suggest everything is hunky-dory and the two sides are getting along. But Iran has labelled reports of negotiations with the US as ‘false’ and is instead trumpeting an imminent agreement with its neighbour Oman. Nada Al Taher a senior foreign reporter with The National, an English language newspaper based in Abu Dhabi, joins Fran to make sense of the latest deal or no deal.One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts has been out and about talking Chemtrails, and he’s got company; the party’s new Victorian State leader, Warren Pickering, who has espoused another well trod conspiracy theory about 15 minute cities. And it’s got us asking, what drives people to adopt these beliefs and who starts them in the first place? Matthew Marques, a senior lecturer in Psychology at LaTrobe University and Dr Kaz Ross, an independent researcher into the far right, extremism and conspiracy theories says at their core conspiracy theories tend to lead back to the same, age-old tropes. And it's national Poetry Month — we explore the life and work of Tasmanian poet, Gwen Harwood, regarded as one of Australia's finest poets.