Conspiracy : why the rational believe the irrational
Michael Shermer
Bok · Engelsk · 2022
| Utgitt | Baltimore, Ma. : John Hopkins University Press , 2022
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| Omfang | xiii, 355 sider : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Nothing happens by accident, everything is connected, and there are no coincidences: that is the essence of conspiratorial thinking. Long a fringe part of the American political landscape, conspiracy theories are now mainstream: 147 members of Congress voted in favor of objections to the 2020 presidential election based on an unproven theory about a rigged electoral process promoted by the mysterious group QAnon. But this is only the latest example in a long history of ideas that include the satanic panics of the 1980s, the New World Order and Vatican conspiracy theories, fears about fluoridated water, speculations about President John F. Kennedy's assassination, and the notions that the Sandy Hook massacre was a false-flag operation and 9/11 was an inside job.
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| ISBN | 978-1-4214-4445-1
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| Hylleplass | 001.98 S
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