conspiracy theory – Excerpted

America

Anti-vaxxers are “emblematic of too many people’s willful disregard of evidence, proud suspicion of expertise and estrangement from reason”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 May 2019

…the anti-vaccine crowd (or anti-vaxxers) aren’t trafficking in anything as concrete, mundane and quaint...

America, Politics in America

“Spreading conspiracy theories once had a price — printing or even mimeographing a tract costs money — but now…, anyone can post a madcap theory or a doctored photograph virtually for free”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 April 2019

Democracies depend on buy-in; citizens need to believe in certain basics, starting with the...

Society

“As is often the case with fringe organizations who take on targets with significant more social capital than their own, their campaign is a tapestry of misinformation, disinformation, and a theory of cross-contamination which imagines that decontextualized anecdotal evidence can be most effectively understood, and then constructed into coherence, through the framework of conspiracy theory”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 August 2017

As is often the case with fringe organizations who take on targets with significant...