This article is a fascinating look at the similarities between the techniques used by Catholic inquisitors to root out heretics in the middle ages and the way modern scientists deal with "Scale Free" Networks. A true inter-disciplinary article that shows what happens when academics from different departments go out to the pub together.
The author doesn't mention memes explicitly, but his description of the way heretics spread heresy is very similiar to the concept of memoids spreading memes.
This is also quite relevant to the way that the RIAA is trying to deal with P2P networks like Kazaa and Napster.
"Among many anthropologists, sociologists and philosophers, it has recently become fashionable to dismiss all religions as memes - parasitic mental processes which propagate in the same manner as chain letters [Dawkins 1989, Dennett 1995]. In this view, religious belief is a self-perpetuating delusion.."
Memetics and the meme criticism of religious hatred and intolerance with additional analyses post 9/11 of The Memetics of Islam and Buddhism
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