Anti-science Narratives as a Form of Legitimization of Post-truth
Anti-science Narratives as a Form of Legitimization of Post-truth

Summary/Abstract: This article sets forth a Critical Discourse Analysis of the anti-vaccinist narratives kindled by the Covid 19 medical crisis with a view to identifying those elements of the discourse that would mark a degradation of the medical discourse (in the sense of its ostracization) and the entrance into a new era of communication: post-truth. Post-truthfulness is seen here as a disaggregation of the traditional discourse (that was in the service of truth) and a reaggregation of the discourse in a pattern where personal truth is validated in discourse as absolute truth. The article analyses both the de-construction of the traditional discourse and the re-construction of the new one emphasizing in both situations the linguistic means that are used to serve every purpose. The anti-scientific discourse produced by those supposed to support it is analysed in order to identify the major topics that are exploited with a view to persuading audiences of the science’s negative impact of people’s life.

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