Distrusting Science on Communication Platforms: Socio-anthropological Aspects of the Science-Society Dialectic within a Phytosanitary Emergency
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The work aims to investigate the conspiracy-like and pseudo-scientific beliefs arose in Salento during a spread of a plant disease that affected olive tree crops known as "OQDS" and, more generally, tries to analyze through a socio-anthropological perspective the communication biases into the dialectical relationship between scientific research and general public and how social media platforms act like a conceptual container for pseudo-scientific belief and distrust sentiments toward science research.
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