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Hope and Fear

Modern Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Pseudo-History

Ronald H Fritze

Reaktion Books 2022

Hb, 272pp, £20, ISBN 9781789145397

There has been growing interest in recent years in conspiracy theories – not in the theories themselves, but rather why so many people believe them. It is a somewhat leading question of course, and raises the suspicion that many of these analyses are more concerned with dismissing contrary opinions as guilty of some cognitive failure than they are in clarifying the

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