阴谋论是连接新兴技术丰富的公众辩论的引擎。

IF 8.9 1区 地球科学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Communications Earth & Environment Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-13 DOI:10.1038/s43247-025-02581-x
Gabriel Dorthe
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摘要

关于COVID-19 mRNA疫苗和太阳能地球工程(化学轨迹)的阴谋论往往相互加强,从而对公共政策和科学规范构成重大挑战,并通过将不同的问题混为一谈而产生混乱。本文基于自2015年以来在美国、德国、瑞士和法国进行的民族志田野调查,研究了这两个积极的阴谋关注领域,包括观察社交媒体页面和博客、积极参与聚会和半结构化访谈。在这里,我采用了一种外交视角,强调在科学事实、价值观、政治、恐惧和希望这两种联系之间的竞争中,科学政策和阴谋论思维之间的相互怀疑。目前的研究表明,阴谋论中看似不相关的主张对科学话语的污染,为科学传播提供了富有成效的见解,了解公众如何在围绕免疫和气候政策的激烈辩论中理解科学和技术。
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Conspiracy theories as engines of connection for enriched public debates on emerging technologies.

Conspiracy theories on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and solar geoengineering (chemtrails) tend to reinforce one another, thereby posing significant challenges to public policy and scientific norms and generating confusion by conflating disparate issues. This paper is based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, and France since 2015 in these two areas of active conspiracy attention, involving observation of social media pages and blogs, active participation in gatherings, and semi-structured interviews. Here, I adopt a diplomatic perspective, highlighting the reciprocal suspicion between science policy and conspiratorial thinking in a competition between two sets of connections of scientific facts, values, politics, fears, and hopes. The present study suggests that the contamination of the scientific discourse by seemingly unrelated claims in conspiracy theories offers fruitful insights to science communication into how publics make sense of science and technology in the fierce debates surrounding immunization and climate policy.

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Communications Earth & Environment
Communications Earth & Environment Earth and Planetary Sciences-General Earth and Planetary Sciences
CiteScore
8.60
自引率
2.50%
发文量
269
审稿时长
26 weeks
期刊介绍: Communications Earth & Environment is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the Earth, environmental and planetary sciences. Research papers published by the journal represent significant advances that bring new insight to a specialized area in Earth science, planetary science or environmental science. Communications Earth & Environment has a 2-year impact factor of 7.9 (2022 Journal Citation Reports®). Articles published in the journal in 2022 were downloaded 1,412,858 times. Median time from submission to the first editorial decision is 8 days.
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