Belief in science-related conspiracy theories is not just a matter of knowledge: The democratic quality of countries as a protective factor

• Irene López-Navarro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Irene López-Navarro, Libia Santos-Requejo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: irene.lopez@usal.es (ILN); libia@usal.es (LSR)

  Affiliation Universidad de Salamanca, Instituto de Estudios de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Edificio I+D+i C/Espejo, Salamanca, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9013-6128

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• Libia Santos-Requejo

  Contributed equally to this work with: Irene López-Navarro, Libia Santos-Requejo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: irene.lopez@usal.es (ILN); libia@usal.es (LSR)

  Affiliation Universidad de Salamanca, Instituto de Estudios de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Edificio I+D+i C/Espejo, Salamanca, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0302-7706

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