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Vice president mike pence and South Carolina governor held a conference on reopening schools this fall. This is 50 minutes. Welcome everyone. All right. Im ready to welcome everyone here to the university of South Carolina this is where we have had many of our meetings concerning the pandemic and we have gotten a lot of great ideas in this place and we have some more today. We appreciate very much the effort of the Vice President , the secretary, the administrator for coming in and being with us. The superintendent. We look forward very much to your questions. Thank you governor Henry Mcmaster. I want to thank you and the first lady peggy for the hospitality today. Karen and i are honored to be here with you, grateful for your strong and steadfast leadership throughout this pandemic. As we see cases rising across South Carolina, on behalf of the president in our entire White House Coronavirus task force government, i want to thank you for the Seamless Partnership that we have forged on
Information on the crawl of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at. Science. A welcome to you covered 19 special and the news some want to jones and then today we want to focus on the astonishing rise in conspiracy theories whats that all about well the pandemic is scary and people are hungry for answers social media is rife with speculation ranging from the plausible to the ridiculous bio engineered weapon bill gates 5 just a few of the covert 9000. 00 conspiracy theories that abound so. We deal with all these theories about the origins of the corona virus and obviously you have ag and talked to social psychologists in. The coronavirus pandemic is the perfect breeding ground for conspiracy theories why is that from a psychological perspective if you will expect come here soon urges to be particularly popular in times of crisis and it has to do with the function such nervous people as
Narratives out for people because humans in general the 1st of to read you do not like to give up control and just listen through things happen so we are usually looking for solution of events because they are the nations always also tied last but there with the possibility to predict what will happen next to control the course of events or even imhoff defines a Conspiracy Theory as the assumption that a big event like a pandemic for example is causally linked to the secret plan of this huge people who seek to benefit at the expense of the public many conspiracy theories operate. Under the principle that if you take the official version you lay Conspiracy Theory around it thereby a lot of conspiracy narratives come with the illusion of greater good when it will reap. And so what characteristics does a Conspiracy Theory usually have so more links and less coincidences in a Conspiracy Theory every event is connected to no matter how implausible it seems in this way for one event was caus
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