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- who: Steije Hofhuis and Maarten Boudry from the Utrecht University, NL have published the research work: ‘Viral’ Hunts? A Cultural Darwinian Analysis of Witch Persecutions, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
- what: The idea of selfish memes has often been dismissed as a fanciful or vacuous metaphor, and the idea of ‘mind viruses' as a tendentious gloss on cultural ideas without any theoretical import.
- how: Through an analysis of the case study of the European witch-hunts she argued that ‘the meme story simply fails to give the authors any kind of explanation at all . . .
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