"By early 2021, when she was casting nearly every public health measure marshalled to control the Covid pandemic as a covert plan by the Chinese Communist party, the World Economic Forum and Anthony Fauci to usher in a sinister new world order, I began to feel as if I was reading a parody of The Shock Doctrine, one with all facts and evidence carefully removed.."

#NaomiKlein writes of her "#Doppelganger," #NaomiWolf

#conspiracism #antiscience #antivaxx #books

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/26/naomi-klein-naomi-wolf-conspiracy-theories

@qotca @klillington

Thanks for the #podcast pointer. I’ve linked to the site 👇

On another note, something that is not addressed in the article (that is not a negative criticism), what should the rational based community do to address this gravitation towards #conspiracism? While reportage is useful, who should be responding to this with a more attractive counter narrative? Is there a need for an organized effort?

#ConspiracyTheories #FarRight

@klillington

I'd heard about the surprising alignment between some #yoga groups and #RightWing #conspiracism before. This article lays out a number of plausible theories as to why and how members of such groups become susceptible to such thinking. Conformity, dissatisfaction with the limitations of medical/scientific solutions/explanations, the collapse of traditional religion – all feeding into to the very human need of wishing to belong and/or assert a collective identity.
#ConspiracyTheory

"While we face catastrophic climate change and other pending disasters, how can we restore the public’s understandings about scientific realities? We explore disinformation and ways to communicate with non-scientists to loosen the grip the disinformants have on so many people."

On #Disinformation, How to Talk to a Science Denier and #ScienceCommunication in a Crisis

https://scholarscircle.org/scholars-circle-author-interview-on-disinformation-how-to-talk-to-a-science-denier-and-science-communication-in-a-crisis-july-30-2023/

#antiscience #ScienceDenial #conspiracism #ScienceLiteracy

"Kennedy’s co-optation of Black liberation efforts in #CommunityHealth distorts a nuanced history. We never hear from him, for example, about how in the 1970s the Black Panthers made access to free, evidence-based health care a pillar of their revolutionary vision. [..] They sponsored pioneering research. They also provided free vaccinations."

The Conspirituality of #RobertFKennedyJr

https://time.com/6292191/robert-f-kennedy-jr-conspiracy-theory-vaccines-essay/

#RFKJr #conspiracism #USPol #Antivaxx #AntivaxxDisinfo #CovidDisinfo #MedicalDisinfo

Wrote down some thoughts on Michael Barkun's "A Culture of Conspiracy"

https://blog.hyperlinkyourheart.com/culture-of-conspiracy.html

#Conspiracism

#Gun #gatekeepers and their philosophies # Individualism, #conspiracism, and #partisanship fuel American #gunculture, argues a sociologist https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh2084

Love this podcast! Or maybe I should say I hate to have to love it, since its stories are so scary! Well done @godlessmom !

#QAnon #qanoncult #conspiracism

#Conspiracism isn't a disease. It's a feature of #America

https://www.alternet.org/conspiracism-isnt-disease-its-american/
#cponspiracyTheories #lies #deception

“The problems in American #democracy are worse. That’s because a particularly insidious disease has infected the core of its political system,...: extreme #conspiracism.”

Courtesy of myHNN https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/184788

The American political right is dominated by a devotion to #ConspiracyTheories.

These fantasies are helpful to agents of #RightWing chaos who wish to destroy government, maintain #GOP group cohesion, and provide a self affirming narrative to voters enraged by their declining fortunes

#USPolitics #FarRight #Conspiracism

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/conspiratorial-thinking-polarization-america-united-kingdom/672726

What do you tell a friend who suddenly decides to transmogrify into a covid conspiracoid? or do you just leave them to their sad disintegration like old tree trunks rotting in the forest? #conspiracism

#Introduction cont.: In addition, I've spent some considerable time devoted to two specific #totalist subjects: #cultic studies and #conspiracism (est. 2007), and I absolutely adore the scholars in these fields. >>

Qld cop killers were evangelical cookers. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/14/queensland-shooting-stacey-train-left-first-husband-nathaniel-for-brother-gareth-wieambilla #whitesupremacism #conspiracism #antivaxxers

Qld cop killers were evangelical cookers. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/14/queensland-shooting-stacey-train-left-first-husband-nathaniel-for-brother-gareth-wieambilla #whitesupremacism #conspiracism #antivaxxers

Meet the most insidious #Resistance grifters—oh, and buy their books!

2018 article by Eoin Higgins

https://theoutline.com/post/5973/meet-the-resistance-grifters

#conspiracism #medialiteracy #informationliteracy

@DrJackBrown Again, I'm not disagreeing with the idea per se, there would absolutely be a major interest in the #Obscurantism afforded by the silencing of "the world's water cooler." I'm moreso just a little skeptical that this was a planned and carefully considered plan, because that really dances right up to the line of #Conspiracism.
Thanks to anyone who took time to read this, #LetMeKnow #WhatYouThink?

@GreenFire Agreed! And their propensity for #Conspiracism affects us in so many aspects of life. I no longer see religion as a benign influence.

I'm mainly interested in #ScienceandSF #conspiracism and #iranprotest

And here are some hashtags about my interests.
#cognition #disinformation #conspiracism #complotisme #bullshit #conspiracy #illusion #criticalthinking #post-truth #post-vérité #belief #croyance #fake-news #imagination #fiction #sincerity #authenticity #neuropsychology #sciencedenial #denialism