Jovan Byford

Nov 4, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Jovan Byford |Adam Koper

IntroductionWhat is a conspiracy theory? Scholars have typically defined conspiracy theories along epistemological lines; some take them to be necessarily false while others allow that they may be true or false, but the common assumption is that we are dealing with a type of explanation or belief in a conspiracy (see Douglas et al., 2019; Sunstein and Vermeule, 2009; Swami et al., 2014, 2016; Uscinski and Enders, 2023).