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Two worrisome themes are currently running through the West: a disturbing rise in fake news and an alarming loss of vocations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the so-called STEM subjects.

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    T. Schaarschmidt. (2017). ‘La era de la posverdad’, Mente y Cerebro [Spanish edition of Mind Scientific American], 87, 22–28.

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    Among others, New York Times, 4 November 2011: ‘Why science majors change their minds (it’s just so darn hard)’. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/why-science-majors-change-their-mind-its-just-so-darn-hard.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.

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    Margaret Jacob. (1988). The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution. New York: Alfred Knopf.

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    Damian Thompson. (2008). Counterknowledge: How we surrendered to conspiracy theories, quack medicine, bogus science and fake history. London: Atlantic Books.

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    Kartik Hosangar (Wired, 25 November 2016). ‘Blame the echo chamber on Facebook. But blame yourself, too’, https://www.wired.com/2016/11/facebook-echo-chamber/.

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    Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy and Sinan Ara. (2018). ‘The spread of true and false news online’. Science, 359, 6380, 1146-1151.

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    Sergio Delgado. (2013). ‘Internet, la nueva era del rumor. Hans Joachim Neubauer aborda la problemática de la habladuría a lo largo de los siglos. [Internet, the new era of rumor. Hans Joachim Neubauer addresses the problem of gossip over the centuries]’ El País 23 March 2013).

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    Delgado. (2013). Op. cit.

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Elías, C. (2019). Introduction. In: Science on the Ropes. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12978-1_1

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