Virtual Grand Rounds: Why Humans Find Conspiracy Theories So Alluring | Silver Hill Hospital

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Virtual Grand Rounds: Why Humans Find Conspiracy Theories So Alluring

Presented by:

Richard A. Friedman, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Director of Psychopharmacology Clinic

Weill Cornell Medical College

 

Wednesday, September 29th, 2021

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Live Presentation via Zoom

Register Here!  https://silverhill.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AeisjVdxRiKlPZdQ3xlWNA

 

Conspiracy theories have been present in all cultures throughout history. The human preference for plausibility over mundane and stubborn facts makes us especially prone to conspiracy thinking in a digital world in which we are drowning in information–and misinformation.

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