Fake News in Contemporary Science and Politics: A Requiem for the Real?

by Keith Moser

This transdisciplinary book investigates the profound repercussions of living in a post-truth world in which 'alternative facts' and post-truth knowledge claims, often bordering on the absurd, have replaced the real in the collective imagination of millions of people around the planet. Through discussions on climate change denial, the anti-vaccination movement, the January 6th Insurrection and the Russia-Ukraine War, this study explores the gravity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031561791
• ISBN13: 9783031561795
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"