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Peter Knight

@beetroot.bsky.social

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Professor of American Studies at the University of Manchester. Research on conspiracy theories, and economic humanities. t.co/tAAlyS4zD6

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Big Picture Science @bipisci.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The moon landing conspiracy theory seems like old intrigue, but, it’s estimated that as many as 10% of Americans still don’t believe we landed on the moon. We consider why the “moon hoax” belief has been difficult to shake on this week's episode: bigpicturescience.org/episodes/ske...

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Peter Knight @beetroot.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

It's called the monological hypothesis, first put forward by the social psychologist Ted Goertzel in 1994 (www.jstor.org/stable/3791630) and taken as accepted fact in the field, but now being challenged more (e.g. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...)

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