Counterknowledge : how we surrendered to conspiracy theories, quack medicine, bogus science and fake history /
Damien Thompson
- London : Atlantic Books, 2008
- 162 p.
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.