#168 Breaking Down the 5G Conspiracy w/ Stacy Wood
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
As people try to make sense of the Coronavirus epidemic, some have unfortunately turned to conspiracy theories linking Covid-19 to the installation of 5G networks. In this episode, Bob and Ben speak with Stacy Wood about her research on conspiracy theories, the past conspiracy theories that have converged in the 5G theory, and the reasons some people are willing to accept these explanations of the world in spite of strong evidence to the contrary.
Dr. Stacy Wood is Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a critical scholar of archives, information policy and information studies who engages with the legal and cultural aspects of records and technology. You can find out more about her at her personal website, StacyEWood.com and follow her on twitter at @StacyEWood. You can also hear Stacy in RTN episodes #12 and #146.
The Road to Now is part of the Osiris Podcast Network. This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
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| 1:14.4 | Today's episode is an interview with Dr. Stacey Wood, making her third appearance on the Road to Now. Some of you may remember her from our past episodes, one of which is very popular on Hillary Clinton's emails that we recorded in 2016. Stacey is an assistant professor in the School of Computing and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh. |
| 1:16.0 | Her research is really fascinating because she does information science. |
| 1:19.6 | And one of her specialties is government documents and secrecy. |
| 1:24.0 | But another side interest in specialty she has has to do with conspiracy theories. |
| 1:29.1 | More broadly, the idea of what evidence compels us to invest ourselves in these types of theories, |
| 1:37.1 | even when there is so little evidence. |
| 1:39.9 | So this is, I think, an insightful conversation. |
| 1:43.0 | It helped answer a lot of questions Bob and I both had about why someone would believe something |
| 1:49.9 | that seems so preposterous. |
| 1:51.8 | So while this episode will not, I'm certainly not make you more sympathetic to a 5G movement |
| 1:57.4 | unless I guess maybe you already were. |
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