"A lot of people are prone to what I call pseudo-profound bulls*," said Gordon Pennycook, a doctorate student at the University of Waterloo who studies why some people are more easily duped than others.
I wonder if this also relates to humans being "pattern-seeking animals."
We first assume there is a pattern to be discerned, and then work to make a pattern appear. That pattern might be, "This sentence reads like BS, but it's probably because I didn't understand it. So let's turn off the BS filter, and see what I can make of it in a more broadly accepting frame of mind."