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

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2020

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Wydział Filozoficzny, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

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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.

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

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Szynkiewicz, M. (2020). May You Live in Interesting Times. Science vs. Pseudoscience in the Era of the Internet. ETHICS IN PROGRESS, 11(1), 85-98. https://doi.org/10.14746/eip.2020.1.5

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Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
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