@article{pigden_conspiracy_2007,
	title = {Conspiracy {Theories} and the {Conventional} {Wisdom}},
	volume = {4},
	issn = {1750-0117, 1742-3600},
	url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/episteme/article/conspiracy-theories-and-the-conventional-wisdom/F493AE4E5065A43AB0420622A9652CCD},
	doi = {10.3366/epi.2007.4.2.219},
	abstract = {Conspiracy theories should be neither believed nor investigated - that is the conventional wisdom. I argue that it is sometimes permissible both to investigate and to believe. Hence this is a dispute in the ethics of belief. I defend epistemic “oughts” that apply in the first instance to belief-forming strategies that are partly under our control. But the belief-forming strategy of not believing conspiracy theories would be a political disaster and the epistemic equivalent of self-mutilation. I discuss several variations of this strategy, interpreting “conspiracy theory” in different ways but conclude that on all these readings, the conventional wisdom is deeply unwise.},
	language = {en},
	number = {2},
	urldate = {2020-11-18},
	journal = {Episteme},
	author = {Pigden, Charles},
	month = jun,
	year = {2007},
	note = {Publisher: Cambridge University Press},
	pages = {219--232},
}

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