"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
#naomiklein #doppelganger #naomiwolf #conspiracism #antiscience #antivaxx #books
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?
#podcast #conspiracism #conspiracytheories #farright
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
#yoga #rightwing #conspiracism #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
#disinformation #sciencecommunication #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
#communityhealth #robertfkennedyjr #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
#Gun #gatekeepers and their philosophies # Individualism, #conspiracism, and #partisanship fuel American #gunculture, argues a sociologist https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh2084
#gun #gatekeepers #conspiracism #Partisanship #gunculture
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
#conspiracism #america #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
#conspiracytheories #rightwing #gop #uspolitics #farright #conspiracism
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. >>
#conspiracism #CULTIC #totalist #introduction
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
#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
#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
#resistance #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?
#WhatYouThink #LetMeKnow #conspiracism #Obscurantism
@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
#iranprotest #conspiracism #scienceandsf
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
#cognition #disinformation #conspiracism #complotisme #bullshit #conspiracy #illusion #criticalthinking #post #belief #croyance #fake #imagination #fiction #sincerity #authenticity #neuropsychology #sciencedenial #denialism