Título: | THE IDEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF SCIENTIFIC DENIAL: THE IMPACT OF CREDULITY AND POLITICAL IDENTITY ON THE REJECTION OF SCIENCE | ||||||||||||
Autor: |
SALLY RAMOS GOMES |
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Colaborador(es): |
MARIA HELENA RODRIGUES NAVAS ZAMORA - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 11/MAR/2025 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||
Notas: |
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Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=69590&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=69590&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.69590 | ||||||||||||
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Ideology helps us understand people s beliefs about specific facts. Scientific
denialism describes the psychological state in which the justifications that explain
ideological positions become immune to evidence. Scientific evidence and
consensus of the scientific community are denied or distorted in the name of values
or ideological preferences. It was possible to observe this phenomenon during the
COVID-19 pandemic, which transcended the health, economic, and humanitarian
spheres, also bringing to light a serious epistemic crisis. The information – and
disinformation – epidemic has caused the erosion of trust in science and the search
for alternative forms of knowledge, causing statements of ideological nature and a
precarious factual basis to become widely disseminated, facilitating the adhesion to
conspiracy theories. A review of the scientific literature and technical, historical
and journalistic documents was conducted; more specifically, about the
psychological, social and political effects caused by the epistemic confusion
between science and ideology during this historical period in Brazil. An
investigation about how ideological thinking interferes with factual perception was
carried out, describing how human cognition is ideologically motivated and how
motivated reasoning protects one s identity, making the political ideology select the
information that corroborates our worldviews and set aside whatever confronts
them. This thesis is composed of four theoretical articles that aim to analyze the
relationships between science, ideology, scientific denial, conspiracy theories,
conspiracy mindset, ideological thinking and political extremism.
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