Why do beliefs about hydroxychloroquine relate to beliefs about guns violence? New paper, "Epistemic Factionalization" with Jim Weatherall-last one from our book 'The Misinformation Age'. We model the emergence of multiple polarized beliefs
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http://cailinoconnor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Epistemic-Factionalization-FINAL.pdf

Will be in Synthese. We show, contra previous authors, why guiding political ideologies are not needed to explain factions that hold multiple, polarized beliefs. Instead social trust grounded in multiple beliefs can do the trick.
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I think this work is really relevant in thinking about the emergence of polarized beliefs about COVID-19, even when it makes *so little* sense for this to be a polarizing topic.
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