Conspiracy Theories Don't Stop Ebola - Public Citizen
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When governments abandon global health institutions over conspiracy theories, real outbreaks pay the price — and the Ebola crisis shows exactly how that deadly logic plays out.
Epistemic InjusticeCollective Action ProblemInstitutional Trust TheoryMisinformation Effect
Theory Briefing
- The Trump administration withdrew from WHO citing COVID conspiracy theories, leaving a critical gap in Ebola response coordination.
- USAID dismantlement has weakened on-the-ground outbreak containment, illustrating how epistemic failure cascades into public health failure.
- Conspiracy-driven policy rejection of expert institutions is a textbook case of how misinformation erodes collective action in a crisis.