What To Do About Conspiracy Theories? : Academic Entanglements in Conflicts Over Truths.
Increasingly social activists, journalists and policy makers have expressed concern over the proliferation of conspiracy theories in the public space. There is a growing fear of their impact on social cohesion and democracy, their power to erode trust in state institutions and science. These concern...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What should academics do about conspiracy theories? Moving beyond debunking to better deal with conspiratorial movements, misinformation and post-truth Elżbieta Drążkiewicz and Jaron Harambam 1. Conspiracist cognition: chaos, convenience, and cause for concern Stephan Lewandowsky 2. Evaluating conspiracy claims as public sphere communication Eileen Culloty 3. Conspiracy theories in political-economic context: lessons from parents with vaccine and other pharmaceutical concerns Elisa J. Sobo 4. Taking vaccine regret and hesitancy seriously. The role of truth, conspiracy theories, gender relations and trust in the HPV immunisation programmes in Ireland Elżbieta Drążkiewicz 5. Towards an ecological ethics of academic responsibility: debunking power structures through relationality in Greek environmentalism Elvira Wepfer 6. Against modernist illusions: why we need more democratic and constructivist alternatives to debunking conspiracy theories Jaron Harambam