They tell us everything they are doing": science and conspiracy in Flat Earth discourses
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flat-earthers, post-truth, conspiracy theories, antiscience, anthropology of scienceAbstract
By analyzing the discourses of flat-earthers, this paper presents the main claims of the movement and discusses the methodological challenges associated to the study of groups which are critical to scientists. Along the description, the paper works with the notion of “hostile empathy” (Bubandt 2009) in two different ways: as the main process through which the flat-earthers create themselves; as a possible methodological strategy to study them.
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