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Workday Full Prof & Chair of Technology & Society @tcddublin & @WeAreTUDublin. Director of the Centre for Sociology of Humans & Machines @SOHAM_Centre.
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Conspiracy theories, science, trust in science

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By Michele D'Errico, Taha Yasseri
| Homeland Security News Wire Verified
CONSPIRACY THEORIESWhy Do Some People Who Trust in Science Also Believe in Scientific Conspiracy Theories? Published 21 July 2026 In a world where trust in institutions is mostly in decline, levels of trust in science remain relatively high. Yet at the same time, belief in scientific conspiracy theories, such as hushed-up effects of vaccines or airplane “chemtrails,” is also widespread. What explains this apparent contradiction?
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Why do some people who trust in science also believe in scientific conspiracy theories?

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By Michele D'Errico, Taha Yasseri, Lisa Lock
| Phys.org Verified
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a world where trust in institutions is generally declining, trust in science remains relatively high. Yet belief in scientific conspiracy theories, such as hushed-up effects of vaccines or airplane "chemtrails," is also widespread. What explains this apparent contradiction? Our work suggests we need to ask a different question—not how much people trust science, but which sources inform their understanding of what science is and how it works.
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Computer Science > Social and Information Networks

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By Kinga Makovi, Taha Yasseri, Milena Tsvetkova
| arXiv
Recent advances in AI have heightened scholars' and policy makers' concern with social influence and behavioral contagion in online communities. We conduct a field experiment on Reddit to investigate the extent to which online users are susceptible to positive behavioral stimuli from other users and artificial agents.
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