Memetics describes how an idea can propagate successfully,
but doesn't necessarily imply a concept is factual.
Memetics: which explores the transmission and evolution of
cultural ideas in a scientific manner, though often somewhat unsuccessfully with the“scientific” part.
Dawkins apparently did
not intend to present a comprehensive theory of Memetics, but rather coined the term meme in a speculative spirit.
In his 1991 essay"Viruses of the Mind",
Richard Dawkins used Memetics to explain the phenomenon of religious belief
and the various characteristics of organised religions.
In his 1991 essay‘Viruses of the Mind,' Richard Dawkins used Memetics to explain the phenomenon of religious belief
and the various characteristics of organized religions.
Dawkins apparently did not intend to present a comprehensive theory of Memetics in The Selfish Gene, but rather
coined the term meme in a speculative spirit.
Later Arel Lucas suggested that the discipline that studies memes and their connections to human and
other carriers of them be known as Memetics by analogy with‘genetics.'.