POPULAR PRESS ARTICLES / OP-EDS

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 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 (2018/2019/2020)

The Atlantic: Why It’s Okay to Call It ‘Fake News’

Bloomberg: Smart People May Be More Likely to Fall for Fake News (or Not)

Bloomberg: Think You’re Smart About Politics? You Might Be Libertarian

Big Think: Want to squelch fake news? Let the readers take charge

Boston Herald: MIT scientist charts fake news reach

Business Insider: Why everybody gets duped by hot health and science startups

CBC: ‘It’s more about laziness’: U of R Prof talks fake news and why some fall for it

CBC: Political disinformation is rampant online. How can voters cope?

CNN: Here’s how to debunk coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories from friends and family

FiveThirtyEight: Why Good Politics And Good Climate Science Don’t Mix

Irish Times: Why producing bulls**t requires few convictions

The Guardian:  Why smart people are more [sic] likely to believe fake news

The Guardian: No word of a lie: scientists rate the world’s biggest peddlers of bull

The Guardian: What does ‘living fully’ mean? Welcome to the age of pseudo-profound nonsense

The Guardian: How to stop the spread of fake news? Pause for a moment

New Scientist: Lazy thinking – not bias – is the real reason we believe fake news

New Scientist: People share fake news online even when they can tell it’s not true

New Statesman: Why the invention of the fridge could be responsible for our love of fake news

Newsy: Expert Says Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’ Perpetuate Misinformation

New York Magazine: How Facebook Fact-checking Can Backfire

NPR: The Psychology Of Fake News

OZY: Think you’re immune to BS? Nope, we all fall for the pseudo-profound

The Outline: The problem isn’t whether people can identify fake news

Pacific Standard: The Least Analytical 2016 Voters: Democrats Who Supported Trump

Pacific Standard: Fundamentalists are more likely to believe fake news

PBS: How bots turned this State of the Union moment into a viral meme

Politico: GOP voters trust CNN, NY Times over Breitbart, InfoWars

Regina Leader-Post: Social media companies must do more to combat fake news: U of R researcher

Scientific American: How Fake News Will Get Worse

Scientific American: I Heard It Before, So It Must Be True

Scientific American: How Disinformation Hacks Your Brain

The Smithsonian Magazine: Study Looks at Why We All Spew So Much BS

Slate: A Surprising New Study Says Facebook’s Ridiculed Plan to Rate the Media Could Actually Work

Slate: Facebook’s Revamp Includes an Effort to Fight Fake News

Time: How Your Brain Tricks You Into Believing Fake News

Vice: Why People Post Fake News

Vox: What constant smartphone photography is doing to our memories

Wall Street Journal: Fine-Tune Your B.S. Detector: You’ll Need It

Wall Street Journal: Detecting Fake News Takes Time

Wired: Don’t want to fall for fake news? Don’t be lazy

Wired: The Analogy Between Covid-19 and Climate Change Is Eerily Precise

World Economic Forum: Could this be the solution to stop the spread of fake news?

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Podcasts!

Data Skeptic 1 (Kyle Polich) / Data Skeptic 2 (Kyle Polich) / On Wisdom (Charles Cassidy & Igor Grossman) / The Super Awesome Science Show (Jason Tetro) / Talking Green (Michael Norton & Allison Schrager) / Teaching Tolerance (Katy Byron) / You Are Not So Smart (David McRaney)