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100 | 1 | _aTHOMPSON Damian | |
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_aCounterknowledge : _bhow we surrendered to conspiracy theories, quack medicine, bogus science and fake history / _cDamien Thompson |
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_aLondon : _bAtlantic Books, _c2008 |
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300 | _a162 p. | ||
520 | _aCounterknowledge 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. | ||
650 | _aKNOWLEDGE | ||
650 | _aSCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE | ||
650 | _aCONSPIRACY THEORIES | ||
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