Empirical research by Meyer, Alfano, and de Bruin (2021) demonstrates that possessing the epistemic vices of indifference to truth and intellectual rigidity predicts an individual's acceptance of fake news, conspiracy theories, and misinformation regarding COVID-19.

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  Virtue Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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• COVID-19 concept
• conspiracy theory concept
• misinformation concept
• epistemic vices concept
• fake news concept