Ri Science Podcast

Conspiracy theories – with Miriam Frankel, Türkay Salim Nefes, Aleksandra Cichocka and Harry T Dyer

Jul 5, 2021

01:23:13

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Are There Existential Motives That Drive People to Believe in Conspiracy Theories?

03:11

Turkey - Is There a Fear of Dismemberment in Turkey?

05:52

Is Facebook Listening to Me?

05:32

Introduction

2min

What Does the Flat Earth Movement Mean for Education?

5min

The Master's White Turk's Big Secret

2min

Turkey - Is There a Fear of Dismemberment in Turkey?

6min

Are There Existential Motives That Drive People to Believe in Conspiracy Theories?

3min

The Mandella Effect

2min

Are We Preparing for a Conspiracy?

4min

Conspiracy Theories Are More Common in the General Population

4min

Is There a Conspirisin Theory?

2min

10.

Is Facebook Listening to Me?

6min

11.

What Is the Recipe of an Effective Cosmic Theory?

4min

12.

What Are the Reasoning Fallacies Related to Concoction Theory?

2min

13.

Is the Internet Helping to Increase the Number of People Believe in a Concoction Theory?

2min

14.

Is the Internet Helping Science?

2min

15.

Is There a Conspiracy Theory?

2min

16.

Is the Internet a Democratization of Science and Knowledge?

6min

17.

Is Science Better at Communicating?

3min

18.

Is There a Conspiracy Theory in the 20th Century?

4min

19.

Are You Trying Not to Get Involved in This Debate

3min

20.

I Think They're Interested in Converting to Christianity

4min

21.

Is There a Problem With Science Reporting?

2min

22.

I Don't Think We Should Police It.

2min

23.

Do You Think Pro-Conspiracy Theory Influences Have More Impact?

5min

24.

The Game of Journalism Has Changed Quite Significantly

4min

25.

A, A, I Would Temptively Say Ye.

2min

This month a panel of psychologists and sociologists discuss why conspiracy theories arise, how they can affect people’s political beliefs, and how we might better communicate with the people who believe in conspiracies. Conspiracy theories have been around for a long time, but in recent years they appear more frequently in public discourse. From increasing attention to anti-vaccine misinformation, to growing communities of conspiracy theorists, like the ‘flat earth’ community, who held their first large scale UK convention in 2018.

Join Miriam Frankel, science editor at The Conversation, alongside Türkay Salim Nefes, Aleksandra Cichocka and Harry T Dyer.

We held this event at the Ri on 24 October 2018, in partnership with independent news website, The Conversation: https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2018/october/public-the-conversation-conspiracy-theories

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