COVID-19: Conspiracies and Collateral Damage vs Constructive Critique
The COVID-19 pandemic that turned the world upside down in early 2020 also gave rise to an “infodemic” of misinformation and conspiracy theories. This chapter tackles three issues. We first explore the political and ideological underpinnings of the COVID-19 infodemic and its organizational, rhetorical, and ideological links to climate denial. We then highlight the legitimacy of political grievances in light of government pandemic policies. We conclude by proposing a sketch of the boundary between politically-motivated denial of science on the one hand and legitimate political arguments on the other.
LEWANDOWSKY Stephan;
ARMAOS Konstantinos;
BRUNS Hendrik;
SCHMID Philipp;
HOLFORD Dawn;
HAHN Ulrike;
AL-RAWI Ahmed K.;
SAH Sunita;
COOK John;
JUANCHICH Marie;
LADYMAN James;
2024-07-11
Cambridge University Press
JRC138722
9781009001021 (online),
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cognitive-science-of-belief/covid19-conspiracies-and-collateral-damage-vs-constructive-critique/8EDC4D0885FE00174E05BC7406C345A0,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC138722,
10.1017/9781009001021.026 (online),
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