(Dis)Trust in Science: What Can We Do About the Scourge of Misinformation?
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At least 10 US children died and over 400 were sickened after taking homeopathic teething medicine laced...
When Truth Isn’t Truth
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“Truth isn’t truth” according to Rudy Giuliani, a statement he made on August 19th on NBC’s...
Does the Starbucks Anti-Bias Training Go Against Human Nature?
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On May 29, over 8,000 Starbucks stores across the US closed their doors for...
How to Avoid Business Disasters with Behavioral Science
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Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal led to a massive fall in the Facebook’s stock price, governments around the world...
How To Win Arguments Through Collaborative Truth-Seeking
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We frequently use debates to resolve different opinions about the truth. However,...
Winning At Life…By Not Losing
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by Peter Livingstone
After hearing several references to a 1973 book called Extraordinary Tennis for the Ordinary Player by...
We Need to Address the Danger from Trump’s Fake News Awards
Donald Trump’s “Fake News Awards” for what he calls “the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media” have drawn mockery. However, behavioral science...
An Incredible Gift to Corporations
President Donald Trump called the recently-passed tax bill “an incredible Christmas gift” for middle-class Americans. In reality, the tax bill takes money from the...
The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide
How do you know whether something is true? How do you convince others to believe the facts? Research shows that the human mind is...
The Deadly Cost of Censoring the CDC
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Do you want your medical treatment to be based on science? The Trump administration...