Abstract
We use models and historical cases to try and understand some of the ways scientific beliefs can go wrong. In particular, we consider questions like: how do conformity and social trust influence the spread of beliefs? What is the ideal network structure for a scientific community? And how do industrial propagandists influence the progress of science, as well as public belief?
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O’Connor, C., & Weatherall, J. O. (2020). False Beliefs and the Social Structure of Science: Some Models and Case Studies. In Groupthink in Science: Greed, Pathological Altruism, Ideology, Competition, and Culture (pp. 37–48). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36822-7_4
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