Re:The EMA Covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mR...
by Pyramus on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:21AM
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> Who can we trust?
I've spent the last couple of weeks working my way through the spectrum from healthy skepticism to conspiracy theory with regards to Covid-19 (on Twitter mostly).
One of the patterns I find really interesting is that the more towards conspiracy theory, the more extreme the allocation of trust becomes. At the end of the spectrum people will fully distrust large parts of society (government, big pharma, general scientists, WHO, CDC), but at the same time they will fully trust a small group of 'independent scientists'.
I've spent the last couple of weeks working my way through the spectrum from healthy skepticism to conspiracy theory with regards to Covid-19 (on Twitter mostly).
One of the patterns I find really interesting is that the more towards conspiracy theory, the more extreme the allocation of trust becomes. At the end of the spectrum people will fully distrust large parts of society (government, big pharma, general scientists, WHO, CDC), but at the same time they will fully trust a small group of 'independent scientists'.