- Populism is a worldview that pits average citizens against “the elites” and includes anti-intellectual attitudes such as distrust of experts (including scientists). A new study found that populism is correlated with conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19, above and beyond partisanship. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053168021993979 656 comments science
Linking pages
- The psychological and political correlates of conspiracy theory beliefs | Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-25617-0 22 comments
- Anti-vaccine rabbit hole leads to political representation: the case of Twitter in Japan | Journal of Computational Social Science https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42001-023-00241-8 0 comments