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Introducing this week’s guest feature - Imagining Conspiracies: science under suspicion

Cynical language may be a staple of democratic debate, but the depth of distrust emerging in our democracies is alarming to many, and particularly alarming in the realm of science. This week’s guest theme inspired by the Cambridge conference taking place on Suspect science: climate change, epidemi

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Imagining conspiracies
Imagining conspiracies

Our guest editor this week is Alfred Moore, a research fellow at the Centre for Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Cambridge University, where he works on the multi-disciplinary project Conspiracy and Democracy. Alfred specializes in political theory, democratic governance, and the politics of science and technology.

In introducing some of the cutting edge debates on Imagined Conspiracies to openDemocracy readers over the next few days, we hope to stimulate a broader and more critical reflection on how this theme will impact on the future of democracy.