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The continuing attraction of conspiracy theory: from Dan Brown to Donald Trump
Tue 17 May 2016
CRASSH
While conspiracy theories constituted legitimate knowledge in the United States in the past, they have lost this status in the present. Yet, they still possess commonsensical appeal. The continuing attraction of their stigmatised knowledge is nowhere more powerfully dramatised than in the novels of Dan Brown, which all evoke large-scale conspiracies that then turn out not to be true at all. At the same time, conspiracy theorising might be changing its status again, as the successes of Donald Trump, who has embraced various conspiracy theories, during the Republican primaries suggest.
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