Z mitologii nauki. Narracje spiskowe związane z genealogią genetyczną
From the Mythology of Science. Conspiracy Narratives Concerning Genetic Genealogy

Summary/Abstract: Genetic genealogy is today an area that is significantly exploited in conspiracy narratives. Its results are included in the Christian narrative, acting strongly against this religion, concerning Germans or other nations/ethnic groups enemies, doing so in a moderate or radical form in reference to other para-scientific investigations and conspiracy narratives, or analyzing this issue separately. Due to the absence of sources about the distant past and questions that history or archeology cannot answer, those in need of an answer reach for genetic research, creating narratives more or less different from the official ones. Para-scientific reports and conspiracy theories have gained significant popularity. This manifests, on the one hand, the need for unequivocal answers concerning the past, in this case even the need to create the myth of the Polish nation – the legend about its great beginnings, and reveals the tendencies that become evident along with the development of the information society. The aim of the article is to analyze selected conspiracy threads inspired by the research of the genome of humanity, to present selected interpretations that use these results in para-scientific studies and finally to discuss their further functioning as part of folklore.

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