POPULAR PRESS ARTICLES / OP-EDS

Rand, D. G., & Pennycook, G. (2021). Most People Don’t Actively Seek to Share Fake News. Scientific American. Link

Rand, D. G., & Pennycook, G. (2021). The truth about Donald Trump voters and violence in politics. The Hill. Link

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

PODCASTS

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RECENT COVERAGE

New York Times: ‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation

Global News: What happens to anti-maskers after the pandemic?

Financial Times: What magic teaches us about misinformation

Science News: A few simple tricks make fake news stories stick in the brain

New York Times: The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof

Psychology Today: Think Before You Share!

CBC: Confused wading through all the COVID-19 vaccine info? Here’s help

GizModo: Researchers Have Figured Out a Way to Stop People From Sharing Misinformation

Saskatoon StarPhoenix: Conspiracy theories noticeable and persuasive in Sask., expert says

Forbes: The TikTok Of The Fake News Clock: Thinking Our Way Out Of The Fake News Crisis

Tech Crunch: TikTok to flag and downrank ‘unsubstantiated’ claims fact checkers can’t verify

Forbes: Disinformation Propelled By Social Media And Conspiracy Theories Led To Insurrection

Vox: Platforms are cracking down hard on political misinformation, but it’s still easy to find

Knowable Magazine (Annual Reviews): The enduring allure of conspiracies

APA Monitor on Psychology: Controlling the spread of misinformation

Financial Times: What puzzles and poker teach us about misinformation

FiveThirtyEight: Americans Were Primed To Believe The Current Onslaught Of Disinformation

CBC: Confusing COVID-19 advice is undermining public trust; here’s how to restore it

New Yorker Magazine: Is Russian Meddling as Dangerous as We Think?

New York Times: ‘The Whole of Liberal Democracy Is in Grave Danger at This Moment’

Time Magazine: The Misinformation Age Has Exacerbated—And Been Exacerbated By—the Coronavirus Pandemic

Forbes: Research Shows How To Spot Fake News About Coronavirus

Scientific American: Near Real-Time Studies Look for Behavioral Measures Vital to Stopping Coronavirus

Smithsonian Magazine: How to Avoid Misinformation About COVID-19

FiveThirtyEight: How Bad Is The COVID-19 Misinformation Epidemic?

Globe and Mail: Social-media platforms’ misinformation seawalls aren’t high enough

CBC: The latest on the coronavirus outbreak for May 15

CBC: Mixed messages, frustration with lockdowns fuel some skepticism about pandemic

Science Magazine: Crushing coronavirus means ‘breaking the habits of a lifetime.’ Behavior scientists have some tips

CBC: No, someone wasn’t fined for sharing a car in Yellowknife during the pandemic

CBC: Sask. professor warns against crossing the line with social media shaming

The New York Times: Why Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories Flourish. And Why It Matters.

BBC: Why smart people believe coronavirus myths

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

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

New York Magazine: How Facebook Fact-checking Can Backfire

Wall Street Journal: Detecting Fake News Takes Time

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

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PUBLIC 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)

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