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When expressing views is risky for some individuals, a general approach for resistance is for public comment to be made by those who are least vulnerable and for those who are most vulnerable to become…
Read more of Brian Martin on resistance in public scientific controversy
Why not engage in debate? If all the evidence supports vaccination, a debate might seem like an ideal opportunity to make the case for vaccinating and to demolish the arguments of the critics. However, there…
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There are boundaries between countries and there are also less tangible boundaries between sets of ideas. One special boundary is between science and non-science. This can also be called a difference or distinction or demarcation.…
This chapter uses Ernesto Laclau’s definition of ‘populism’ as a political logic, rather than a movement attached to a specific political ideology or social base (Laclau 2005: 5). According to this definition, there are two…
Read more of Rosanne Hooper on conspiracy theories in Venezuela
While the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign was the first where digital technology played a significant role (and contestants had dedicated teams for this purpose), it was the very first major political event in which digitally…
Read more of Kiril Avramov, Vasily Gatov and Ilya Yablokov, pledging devotion
Many scholars have drawn on this argument and have suggested that, ironically, exactly at the time when [in his essay ‘The Paranoid Style in American Politics’, Richard] Hofstadter was making this claim, conspiracy theories were…
Read more of Michael Butter on the stigmatization of conspiracy theories since 1960s
A nationwide representative study in Poland found that intergroup contact, as well as intergroup friendships, were significant predictors of attitudes toward Jews, but they were not significantly related to belief in the Jewish conspiracy [Winiewski,…
Importantly, these intra-individual correlations varied as a function of conspiracy mentality: The more people endorsed a conspiracy mentality, the stronger was their association of power with threat and the more they tended to see powerful…
Read more of Roland Imhoff & Pea Lamberty on conspiracy theories in terms of power & norm compliance
On the one hand, they [conspiracy theories] are an object of study like any other phenomenon that engages the attention of social scientists and scholars in the humanities. On the other hand, conspiracy theories us…
Въ антропологіи теорій заговора популярно мнѣніе, будто лѣвыя конспирологіи гораздо менѣе распространены, чѣмъ правыя. Любопытно, такъ ли это. Содержательныхъ препятствій къ разработкѣ первыхъ, насколько я могу судить, нѣтъ. Нѣтъ и конфликта съ проектомъ имманентизаціи эсхатона:…