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Information Sources & Information Sifting Techniques

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I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.

Thursday, April 01, 2021

QAnon

Scaachi Koul investigates the lives of those who gave credence to QAnon .

-DD

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Saturday, June 13, 2020

Conspiracy Theories

John Cook, Sander van der Linden, Stephan Lewandowsky and Ullrich Ecker have researched and classified what draws individuals to conspiracy theories. These include:

  1. Contradictory beliefs
  2. Overriding suspicion
  3. Nefarious intent
  4. Conviction something’s wrong
  5. Persecuted victim
  6. Immunity to evidence
  7. Reinterpreting randomness
-DD

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