“…For example, previous results have shown that the information shared in social media is more radical and partisan than that of open websites (Faris, Roberts, Etling, Bourassa, Zuckerman, & Benkler, 2017), thus facilitating the spread of appealing falsehoods (Vosoughi, Roy, & Aral, 2018). Due to its high prevalence in the public sphere and its alarming implications, the struggle between groups of pseudoscientific believers and EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PSEUDOSCIENCE 13 critical thinkers is increasingly polarised, establishing an intergroup relationship dominated by an imaginary of distrust, competition, and mutual derogation (e.g., Cano-Orón, 2019).…”