May You Live in Interesting Times. Science vs. Pseudoscience in the Era of the Internet

• Authors: Mariusz Szynkiewicz

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May You Live in Interesting Times. Science vs. Pseudoscience in the Era of the Internet

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

May you live in interesting times, the famous maxim quotes. Undoubtedly, at least in the historical context, periods of political, social, scientific, or economic riots – or at least commotion, ferment, crisis – have certainly earned such a title. So have the epochs which were subject to radical transformations distorting traditional relationships and institutions, existing patterns and rules. The abovementioned “interestingness” is thus a function of a radical change, challenge and variability, somewhat a derivative of erosion, and of all that we associate it with the notion of revolution or turn, be it political, social, economic, environmental, or scientific. The paper’s core aim is to examine the nowadays constantly revised, questioned, thus, shaking demarcation between science and pseudoscience in the light of new trends such as misinformation, denialism, internetisation and memoisation of scientific discourses.

Keywords

EN

science; pseudoscience; social responsibility; internet and internetisation; misinformation; memoisation; denialism; data smog

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Ethics in Progress
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 85-98

Dates

published

2020-06-09

Contributors

author

Mariusz Szynkiewicz

• Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/eip.2020.1.5