POPULAR PRESS ARTICLES / OP-EDS
Pennycook, G. (2020). How the COVID-19 crisis exposes widespread climate change hypocrisy. CBC. Link |
Pennycook, G. & Rand, D. G. (2020). The Right Way to Fight Fake News. The New York Times. Link |
Pennycook, G. & Rand, D. G. (2019). Why Do People Fall for Fake News? The New York Times. Link |
Pennycook, G., Martel, C., & Rand, D. G. (2019). Knowing how fake news preys on your emotions can help you spot it. CBC. Link |
Rand, D.G. & Pennycook, G. (2019). Crowdsourcing is the best weapon in fight against fake news. The Hill. Link |
Barr, N. & Pennycook, G. (2018). The most dangerous and misunderstood threat to humanity is the human mind. Quartz. Link [Note: We did not choose this terrible title.] |
Cheyne, J.A. & Pennycook, G. (2016). The seductions of pretentious bullshit: An empirical study. Skeptic Magazine, 21, 40-45. PDF |
Pennycook, G. (2016). Why bullshit is no laughing matter. Aeon Digital Magazine. Link |
RECENT COVERAGE
TV
CBC (The National) / CBC (Politics) / CBC (Calgary) / CTV National News Link1 Link2 / CTV News (Kitchener-Waterloo) / CTV News (Regina) Link1 Link2 Link3 / CTV Morning Live (Saskatoon) / Global National News / Global News Regina Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 / Business News Network
PODCASTS
CBC Cross-Country Checkup (Ian Hanomansing) / Data Skeptic 1 (Kyle Polich) / Data Skeptic 2 (Kyle Polich) / On Wisdom (Charles Cassidy & Igor Grossman) / Opinion Science (Andy Luttrell) / The Dissenter (Ricardo Lopes) / The Super Awesome Science Show (Jason Tetro) / Talking Green (Michael Norton & Allison Schrager) / Teaching Tolerance (Katy Byron) / You Are Not So Smart (David McRaney)
LECTURES
August 12/20: Why do people believe what they believe about climate change? (Scholars at Brown for Climate Action) |
June 2/20: Fighting misinformation online in the age of COVID-19 (CASOS IDeaS Seminar Series – Carnegie Mellon University) |
May 5/20: On the psychology of misperceptions about COVID-19 (Hot Politics Lab – University of Amsterdam) |
Feb 19/20: Fake news, political ideology, and climate change (Academics for Climate – University of Regina) |
Nov 22/19: Reasoning like good lawyers or bad philosophers? (A Multidisciplinary Look at Knowledge Resistance Workshop – University of Stockholm) |