The past decade has made clear that conspiracy theories play an important role in the well-being of citizens and the fate of societies. Conspiracy theories have defined the course of some of the most influential election campaigns in recent history (the Brexit referendum; the 2016 Trump election...
After analyzing the data, researchers argue that there is often a direct link between a conspiracy theory mindset and poor sleep or insomnia. In many cases, depression emerged as the major underlying psychological mechanism behind conspiratorial thinking. “Sleep is crucial for mental health and ...
The conspiracy was described in a 1976 self-published book, "We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle," and a 1978 movie, "Capricorn One." Even as late as 2001, there was a Fox documentary, "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?" that gave air time ...
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What underlies beliefs in the conspiracy theory space is an underlying distrust of those in power (Crocker et al., 1999; Uscinski and Parent, 2014; Uscinski et al., 2016). Our analyses of media sources, as well as those of others (Motta et al., 2020; Romano, 2020), suggest that ...
However, what I was subject to when working with other scientists or when learning in a classroom was physicalism or a theory based on physicalism, which was all there was back in 1975.I couldn’t take a course on real science, because it didn’t exist. While continuing to work in resea...
At the time, I noted how in 2014, when the whole "CDC whistleblower" conspiracy theory was first hatched, antivaxers were so bad at Twitter, so obvious, so naive. The Tweeted inane claims at government officials, scientists, legislators, and whoever… more Technology Crowdsourced Geospatial ...
Data point 11: Anti-Vaccine conspiracy theory beliefs YouGov and the Cambridge Globalism Project teamed up in 2020 to interview 22,000 people in 21 countries to estimate beliefs in conspiracy theories. I tookdata from a single questionabout the extent to which people believe that “harmful side...
Schneider Shorts 16.09.2024 – superconductor data released, old American alpha males in trouble, a theory why CureVac failed, a resigned Polish papermiller’s lament, with a remote-papermiller in London, France’s celebrity plagiarist, a society for fake neuroscience, MDPI in action, and finally...
In a 2016 interview with The Spectator, she said, “The temperature record has been adjusted in ways that make the past look cooler and the present warmer – it’s not a conspiracy, but it’s not neutral either.” She ties the bias to institutional pressures like funding and peer ...