{"id":95079,"date":"2019-08-21T13:42:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T20:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/conspiracy-theories-are-dangerous-heres-how-to-crush-them"},"modified":"2019-08-21T13:42:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T20:42:28","slug":"conspiracy-theories-are-dangerous-heres-how-to-crush-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/conspiracy-theories-are-dangerous-heres-how-to-crush-them","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy theories are dangerous\u2014here\u2019s how to crush them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/conspiracy-theories-are-dangerous-heres-how-to-crush-them2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GONE ARE the days when conspiracy-mongers had to find shards of evidence and contort it to convince people. Now, just their malevolence is needed. If a concocted scenario can\u2019t be proved, then perhaps it can\u2019t be disproved either. That is toxic for a stable society and politics. So how did we get here, and how do we get out?<\/p>\n<p>Nancy L. Rosenblum of Harvard University and Russell Muirhead of Dartmouth College are the authors of \u201cA Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy\u201d (Princeton, 2019). Though conspiracy theories have always existed, they note that today something is different and dangerous: \u201cConspiracy without the theory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GONE ARE the days when conspiracy-mongers had to find shards of evidence and contort it to convince people. Now, just their malevolence is needed. If a concocted scenario can\u2019t be proved, then perhaps it can\u2019t be disproved either. That is toxic for a stable society and politics. So how did we get here, and how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}