![]() ![]() I think conspiracy theories have an appeal to us because they basically pardon us for our inaction. These theories become so convoluted and improbable that eventually it would be easier to just blame aliens.īut the real reason I hate conspiracy theories is that a conspiracy implies that the bad shit that happens in our world is hidden from us by powerful elites – and the fact is that the really, really bad shit in our world isn’t hidden from us at all. Conspiracy theories also tend to involve improbable leaps of faith along the way, you know, like the one that the US government was involved in bringing down the Twin Towers at 9/11. The reason is that a conspiracy generally involves people plotting and planning and those people who are assumed to have the power to bring the conspiracy into effect generally have been shown in history to be pretty stupid – in fact, far too stupid to do the conspiracy and keep quiet about it. I really dislike conspiracy theories – in fact, few things make me angrier. She was the 2013 recipient of the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year award, and was named OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2015. It was described by Caitlin Moran as "one of those books that has the potential to change things – a monumental piece of research." Melanie Reid in The Times called Invisible Women "a game-changer.making an unanswerable case and doing so brilliantly…the ambition and scope – and sheer originality – of Invisible Women is huge.It should be on every policymaker, politician and manager’s shelves," a sentiment that was echoed by Nicola Sturgeon who described it as "revelatory," adding that "it should be required reading for policy and decision makers everywhere."Ĭaroline lives in London with her small excitable dog, Poppy, has a degree in English language and literature from the University of Oxford, and studied behavioural and feminist economics at the LSE. It is being translated into nineteen languages, and is the winner of the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize, the 2019 Books Are My Bag Readers Choice Award, and the 2019 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. It is a #1 Sunday Times bestseller and spent 16 weeks in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. Her second book, INVISIBLE WOMEN: exposing data bias in a world designed for men, was published in March 2019 by Chatto & Windus in the UK & Abrams in the US. Eleanor Marx hailed it in the New Statesman as “an extended and immersive piece of investigative journalism,” while Bridget Christie chose it as one of her books of the year in the Guardian, declaring that “young girls and women everywhere should have a copy.” ![]() It was described as “a must-read” by the Sunday Independent and “rousing and immensely readable” by Good Housekeeping who selected it as their “best non-fiction”. Her first book, Do it Like a Woman, was published by Portobello in 2015. Notable campaigns include getting a female historical figure on Bank of England banknotes getting Twitter to introduce a "report abuse" button on tweets getting the first statue of a woman (Millicent Fawcett) in Parliament Square. She is published across the major national media, and appears in both print and broadcast as a commentator on a wide range of topics. Caroline Criado Pérez is a best-selling and award-winning writer, broadcaster and feminist campaigner. ![]()
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