Admitting a hoax does not deter believers from accepting its core message.
Evidence
And the story lent itself to conspiracist interpretations: who were the elite the secret space program was intended to save? Even those willing to acknowledge that Alternative 3 was trumped up insisted that its core argument might very well be true—another instance of the demolition of the fact-fi ction boundary. — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 433
Categorization
- XREF: Ties to the persistent fact-fiction boundary collapse documented throughout Barkun’s conspiracy literature corpus. — connects to: Disconfirming evidence can strengthen rather than weaken committed beliefs. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 97; Accusations of hoax resist correction in ways ordinary bias accusations do not — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 243; Conspiracism is not bullshit because it cares about being affirmed as reality. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 166 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Disconfirming evidence can strengthen rather than weaken committed beliefs.
#corroborates(0.95) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 97 - Even disconfirmation evidence often fails to break a person’s confirmation bias
#corroborates(0.90) — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 94 - Accusations of hoax resist correction in ways ordinary bias accusations do not
#corroborates(0.85) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 243 - Non-Christians may resist evidence contradicting their beliefs
#exemplifies(0.80) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4168 - Conspiracism is not bullshit because it cares about being affirmed as reality.
#complicates(0.75) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 166