120: How false beliefs spread in science (with Cailin O'Connor)
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The Different Processes of Misinformation Spreading Within the Public Spire
In scientific communities, you see people adhering to norms where you have to support your beliefs with evidence. Whereas in more popular spheres, sometimes people are sharing pieces of evidence with each other to convince each other of things. In the latter case, you want to model it more as just taking up beliefs that you see,. not 100% of the time, but maybe some percentage of the time.
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