On the viability of conspiratorial beliefs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Grimes, David Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CURE CONSPIRACY; CLIMATE CHANGE CONSPIRACY; CONSPIRACY THEORY; CONSPIRATORIAL BELIEF; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NARRATIVE; NASA MOON LANDING CONSPIRACY; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; SOCIAL BELIEF; THEORY; VACCINATION CONSPIRACY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CULTURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84958582315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147905     Document Type: Article

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