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Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization
James Owen Weatherall, Cailin O'Connor
Why do people who disagree about one subject tend to disagree about other subjects as well? In this paper, we introduce a model to explore this phenomenon of "epistemic factionizat…
How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policy Makers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks
James Owen Weatherall, Cailin O'Connor, Justin Bruner
In their recent book Merchants of Doubt [New York:Bloomsbury 2010], Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway describe the "tobacco strategy", which was used by the tobacco industry to influen…
Scientific Polarization
Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall
Contemporary societies are often "polarized", in the sense that sub-groups within these societies hold stably opposing beliefs, even when there is a fact of the matter. Extant mode…