12/24/2023 0 Comments Flat earth conspiracy theoriesThey usually start from the assumption of an evil conspiracy promoted by a specific group against individuals or collectives. Many false narratives, such as the flat Earth one, have various conspiracy theories in their content. He explains that although conspiracy theories have been on the rise lately, they are not necessarily new - a phenomenon explained to some extent by the Internet’s potential reach. Leonardo Soares de Melo is another project member and doctoral student in the Graduate Program in Teaching of Sciences and Mathematical Education. Who has never heard that the Earth is flat? Or that the coronavirus was created through genetic modifications in Chinese laboratories, with the purpose of attacking Western civilization? These and other conspiracy theories - which, if not new, are readapted from other theories - are the object of study of the project “Who’s afraid of conspiracy theories? Investigation of technoscientific conspiracies in digital environments from the perspective of the actor-network theory”, coordinated by Moisés Alves de Oliveira, professor of the Department of Chemistry.
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