Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory: Law, Politics, and Science Denialism in the COVID-19 Era

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With COVID-19, we are facing the most serious public health threat of our lifetime. Now, more than ever, we need experts and sound scientific advice to guide critical decision-making during the pandemic. With conspiracy theories and other similar rhetorical weapons being used to discredit our scientific experts, we face a myriad of misinformation, mistruths, and all-out attacks on our experts, breeding distrust am...

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• Computer Simulation
• COVID-19
• COVID-19 Vaccines
• Mutation
• Pandemics
• SARS-CoV-2
• SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
• Stochastic Processes

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Literature Corpus work

2fa2dd12-129e-5d4d-a4be-f0fcdf117def

DOI

10.2139/ssrn.3681728