Counterknowledge : how we surrendered to conspiracy theories, quack medicine, bogus science and fake history / Damien Thompson
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Atlantic Books, 2008Description: 162 pISBN:- 1843546752 (hbk):
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Counterknowledge is defined as misinformation packaged to look like fact and accepted as such by millions of people. This book demolishes what it describes as a pandemic of credulous thinking, an infection whose spread has ironically been enabled by the entirely scientific achievements of digital technology.
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