TY - BOOK ID - 134783585 TI - Secrets and Conspiracies AU - Loukola, Olli AU - Donskis, Leonidas PY - 2022 SN - 9789004499720 9789004499713 PB - Leiden; Boston : Brill DB - UniCat KW - Airplanes, Military KW - Airplanes, Military KW - Government information KW - Conspiracies KW - Conspiracies KW - Conspiracy theories KW - Nevada KW - Rachel Region KW - Political aspects KW - Psychological aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134783585 AB - Secrets and conspiracies have always played an important role in human history, and today conspiracy theories have become a rather disconcerting practice for picturing our world and our relations with each other. How seriously are we to take them, then? Are we to completely discard them as political rhetoric, purposeful misinformation, or even individual delusions? Or should we take them as serious, perhaps even scientific theories? This collection purports to provide a sober analysis of the much-debated issues and tries to develop and outline conceptual and theoretical tools to make sense of what secrets and conspiracies truly are. ER -