{"id":2676,"date":"2021-02-11T15:25:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2021-02-11T15:25:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:25:58","slug":"what-happens-when-a-global-pandemic-a-vaccine-resistance-movement-and-the-age-of-conspiracy-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2021\/02\/11\/what-happens-when-a-global-pandemic-a-vaccine-resistance-movement-and-the-age-of-conspiracy-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when a global pandemic, a vaccine-resistance movement, and the age of conspiracy collide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Professor Karen Douglas comments in this Rolling Stone piece about conspiracy theories in the time of Covid. <\/p>\n<p>The outbreak of the corona virus pandemic in 2020 created a \u201cperfect storm\u201d for new conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"l-article-header__row l-article-header__row--title t-bold t-bold--condensed\">Rolling Stone Magazine covered this phenomeon in the Feb issue of their magazine, in an article &#8216;How the Anti-Vaxxers Got Red-Pilled.&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p>Professor Karen Douglas is quoted:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people believe that powerful, secret forces are responsible, then it isn\u2019t their fault that things are bad for them,\u201d and they can make themselves feel better without having to \u201ctease apart the complex reasons for their disadvantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/221\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/221\/douglas-karen\">Douglas<\/a> has worked extensively around conspiracy theories asking, why are conspiracy theories so popular? Who believes them? Why do people believe them? What are some of the consequences of conspiracy theories and can such theories be harmful?<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/qanon-anti-vax-covid-vaccine-conspiracy-theory-1125197\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Karen Douglas comments in this Rolling Stone piece about conspiracy theories in the time of Covid. The outbreak of the corona virus pandemic in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2021\/02\/11\/what-happens-when-a-global-pandemic-a-vaccine-resistance-movement-and-the-age-of-conspiracy-collide\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":2677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[243035,219680,243034],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2693,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions\/2693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}