The Comforting Appeal of Conspiracy Theories

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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A video making outlandish and obviously false claims about the coronavirus is making the rounds on the internet. Adrienne LaFrance joins to talk about the psychology of abandoning the factual realm. Check out "Shadowland" from The Atlantic here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Catherine.
0:04.3	Jim Hamplin. What do you know?
0:08.8	Hmm. Uh-oh.
0:10.8	Oh. Sounds like somebody's gone down a rabbit hole since we last spoke.
0:15.0	I worry about you in the days in between our conversation.
0:20.0	There's so much on the internet and you don't have a docent anymore a guide
0:27.2	That's true. I'm I'm just I'm free range on Tuesdays and Thursdays just trolling the internet for information with no one to tell me
0:37.0	what's what. It is a dangerous situation for sure.
0:40.0	Do you remember Dante's book The Inferno?
0:43.0	I've never read it.
0:47.0	No.
0:48.0	Can't say I've read it.
0:50.0	No. Okay, well, scrap that then. We got a listener question.
0:55.0	Correct. We got a question related to trolling on the internet.
1:01.0	So we got a question from a listener named Ashley and she said
1:04.7	I came across something tonight that I now can't stop thinking about.
1:09.4	Naturally with all things coronavirus I've been trying my best to keep up with the news.
1:14.4	Specifically I've been trying to let the science cut through the noise.
1:17.6	But then tonight I came across this video and it's haunting me.
1:21.4	I'm hoping Jim can offer a perspective. I'm hoping this is fake or
1:25.0	taken out of context or something so I can dismiss it and get back to what I thought was me following
1:30.0	a leader in science. I'm feeling a bit crushed at the moment. And then she links to a video which has since
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