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by Gérald Bronner
Belief and Misbelief Asymmetry on the Internet
Cover
Title
Copyright
Preface
Introduction
1 More is Less: Mental Avarice and Mass Information
1.1. The revolution of the cognitive market
1.2. Amplification of the confirmation bias
1.3. The Seattle affair
1.4. The theorem of information credulity
1.5. Filter bubbles
2 Why Does the Internet Side with Dubious Ideas?
2.1. The utopia of the knowledge society and the empire of beliefs
2.2. The ditherer’s problem
2.3. Competition between belief and knowledge on the Internet
2.4. Psychokinesis
2.5. The Loch Ness Monster
2.6. Aspartame
2.7. Crop circles
2.8. Astrology
2.9. Overview of resutls
2.10. How can we explain these results?
2.11. The Titanic syndrome
2.12. When Olson’s paradox plays against knowledge
2.13. Charles Fort, his life, and his works in a few words
2.14. Fort products: argumentative mille-feuilles
2.15. The sharing of the arguments of conviction
2.16. A Fortean product in the making: Michael Jackson’s fake death
2.17. When Fort reinforces Olson
2.18. Would you believe it!
2.19. It is all in the Bible, all of it
2.20. The transparency paradox
2.21. A shorter incubation period
3 Competition Serves the Truth, Excessive Competition Harms It
3.1. Michael Jackson’s son, abused by Nicolas Sarkozy
3.2. A “prisoner’s dilemma” kind of situation
3.3. Presidential unfaithfulness and the burnt Koran
3.4. The IRC curve (information reliability/competition)
4 What Can Be Done? From the Democracy of the Gullible to the Democracy of Enlightenment
4.1. The hope of the astrophysicist
4.2. The bad education
4.3. When gullibility looks like intelligence
4.4. The sum of imperfections
4.5. Toward cognitive demagogy
4.6. How to keep the illusion scholar inside us in check
4.7. Declaration of mental independence
4.8. The fourth power
4.9. A new form of scientific communication
4.10. A new militancy
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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