The Intersections of Conspiracy Theories and Postmodern Thought in the Long 1960s by Florian Andrei VLAD

“…I argue that the period’s pervasive skepticism toward grand narratives and authority, fueled by intellectual trends of the era, as well as by countercultural movements and by events such as the Vietnam War and the Kennedy assassination, created a fertile ground for the proliferation of conspiracy theories. …”
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Réflexion et méthodologie: autour d’une prise d’empreinte en papier by Cyril Benoît, Florence Lagger, Noé Terrapon

“…The authors raise their skepticism about reproductions and consider molds as a simple documentary support. …”
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Designing for Policy Success by Mallory E. Compton, Joannah Luetjens, Paul ‘t Hart

“…Amidst the general mood of skepticism about the problem-solving capacity of governments in the face of ‘wicked problems’, it is easy to overlook that at times governments do manage to design and implement public policies and programs quite successfully. …”
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MISSIONARY STRATEGIES AND INDIGENOUS RESPONSE: THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY TO THE BISENI CLAN by JOHN OLUWABUKUNMI OLUWAJANA, OLAITAN OYEDELA, OLAOBA

“…The indigenous responses to Christianity ranged from curiosity and intrigue to skepticism and resistance, reflecting the complex dynamics of cultural encounter and negotiation. …”
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Faith No More Why People Reject Religion by Phil Zuckerman (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 224 pages, ISBN: 9780199740017 by Nafiye Aydın

“…Zuckerman, who conducts research in the fields of atheism, agnosticism, skepticism, humanism, and naturalism, examines the intellectual and social characteristics of people who abandon their beliefs in his book “Faith No More Why People Reject Religion” and questions whether people need a God to be truly moral. …”
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Radical Innocence: Margaret Fuller’s Utopian Rome by Leslie Elizabeth Eckel

“…Instead, she expressed skepticism of Brook Farm and Fruitlands, predicting empty rhetoric and certain failure. …”
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Francis Bacon’s Concept of Science and Scientific Method by Seyed Mohammad Reza Hosseini Beheshti

“…The “forerunners” of philosophy and science sought the way out of the skepticism, that emerged from the endless controversies concerning the universals and the possibility of rational and philosophical knowledge about nature during the High and Late scholasticism, in the concept of “method”. …”
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Product, services and technology review blogs by Gené van Heerden

“… While much research has been conducted on consumer skepticism about advertising, limited attention has been focused on the relationship between gender and scepticism. …”
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Future of European Security Policies: Is Geopolitical Europe Possible? by Ahmet K. Han, Çiğdem Üstün

“…However, EU's historical struggle in forging a strong security policy fuels skepticism. This study assesses the EU's foreign policy in the Mediterranean and Black Sea amidst regional turmoil, employing a neo-classical realist lens and a global perspective.…”
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Eco-packaging and fresh food products. Analysis of demand and consumer behavior in Italy by Marzia Ingrassia, Claudio Bellia, Rosaria Disclafani, Pietro Chinnici, Stefania Chironi

“…The present study, conducted on Italian consumers, contributes to the flow of literature on consumer demand of sustainable food packaging, highlighting the preferences, concerns, and skepticism, the factors that explain behaviors, and the role of information on their choices. …”
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A Most Eminent Victorian: Thomas Henry Huxley by Sherrie Lyons

“…Approaching Darwin’s theory in the spirit of Goethe’s Thatige Skepsis or active skepticism, he showed that most of the “scientific” objections to evolution were at their root religiously based. …”
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Schools of Strategic Thoughts on Russia in the Us Expert Community by I. A. Safranchuk

“…Four such schools of thought are suggested, namely - skepticism, alarmism, realism and unconditional cooperation. …”
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History and Memory in the Novels of Gabriela Adamesteanu by Roumiana L. Stantcheva

“…The present paper analyses the novelistic work of contemporary Romanian writer Gabriela Adamesteanu (born 1942) in the context of the skepticism of historiography regarding the notion of collective memory expressed by Pierre Nora and Reinhart Koselleck. …”
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CHINA THREAT THEORY: A CULTURAL INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE MASS MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE 19TH CONGRESS by Mert Çetin, Hakan Cavlak

“…This study examines skepticism of the Western societies towards China’sgrowth which manifests itself on the Western mass media coverage of the ChineseCommunist Party’s 19th congress based on cultural-institutional approach. …”
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Naxi Cosmology of Mt Yulong Sacred Sites with Caveats for Conservation by Jan Salick, Robbie Hart, Li Siyu

“…For this commonly espoused partnership, we found encouragement, skepticism and challenges. Naxi perspectives on sacred space and conservation ranged in scale from hyper-local, through regional, to historical and cosmological. …”
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Éclairages foucaldiens sur l’incrimination du déisme et de la libre pensée dans la jeune République américaine by Auréliane Narvaez

“…These assaults on religious infidelity framed deism as a multifaceted peril disrupting the stability of the young Republic, ultimately forging a form of Protestant governmentality that sought to make the population internalize the rejection of religious skepticism. Undermining deism thus hinged on security and sanitary discourses that associated religious infidelity with anarchy, criminality, and even insanity. …”
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The Postfeminist Masquerade and the Cynical Male Gaze: The Disavowal of Sexual Difference in Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves by Tamas NAGYPAL

“…In a cynical move which undermines the postfeminist association of irony with freedom, the director equates Bess’s belief in God with her acting for the gaze of his camera, betraying his skepticism about a feminine subject not captured by the cinema’s patriarchal apparatus.…”
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A Critical Examination of Postmodern - Hermeneutics Studies on History by Amir Hossein Hatami

“…But the reality is that accepting and applying the hermeneutic postmodernist perspective in history means getting absolute skepticism and the destruction of the bases of the historical knowledge and its rejection. …”
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Czy Europa zaakceptuje uprawy roślin genetycznie zmodyfikowanych? – argumenty i kontrargumenty by Jerzy Macewicz

“…The study contains a summary of claims that there is a serious potential risk to the environment of positive cultivation of GM crops, with uncertain effects, and that basic manipulation of heredity could have tragic consequences. European skepticism about GM crops increases from year to year. …”
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Analysis of Urban Residents’ Consumption Behavior and Influencing Factors of Ecological Agricultural Products in the Post-Pandemic Era of COVID-19 by Ximing Chen, Jie Shang

“…The results showed that: family size, average annual household income, gender, and education level would not affect the consumers’ behavior in purchasing ecological agricultural products after the pandemic; age and whether consumers have purchased agricultural products before had a significant negative impact on consumption behavior; the degree of consumers’ skepticism about agricultural products in the market after the pandemic had a significant positive impact on their purchase behavior. …”
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