Dr. Seema Yasmin, professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, discusses: information disorder and its treatment, common techniques used for pushing lies, the use of narrative in communicating, the history and current state of journalism in America, how to best consume the news and mitigate the negative effects of social media, and a wide variety of other topics. Dr. Yasmin has investigated disease outbreaks for the CDC, worked as a CNN medical analyst and authored many books including: What the Fact? - Finding Truth in all the Noise.
#92-Election 2024 Preparation 4-Teaching Critical Thinking to American Military Future Leaders-with Guest Stephen Gerras
#91-How artificial intelligence can help us understand human cognition-with guest Leslie Valiant
#90-Election 2024 Preparation 3-Hidden Tribes and the Perception Gap-with guest Stephen Hawkins
#89-Election 2024 Preparation 2-Political Depolarization and the Work of Braver Angels-with guest Ciaran O'Connor
#88-What’s new in teaching critical thinking and advances in the mental immunity approach for combating misinformation with guest Melanie Trecek-King
#87-Election 2024 Preparation—The Importance of Critical Thinking to Democracy, with guest Timothy Redmond
#86-Disinformation-its creators, amplifiers and believers-and how to fight for truth and protect democracy with guest Lee McIntyre
#85-Critical thinking in health and medicine and the importance of critical thinking in pandemics and other national and international health crises
# 84-Top pick episode after seven years-Johnathan Rauch and the Constitution of Knowledge
#83-Bob and Julia discuss Artificial Intelligence
#82-Teaching and Learning Critical Thinking and Recognizing Unsubstantiated Claims-with guest Alan Bensley
#81-Actively Open-minded Thinking-with guest Emlen Metz
#80- Virtues, Benefits and Joy of Critical Thinking and Science Appreciation-with Guy Harrison
#79-How critical thinking can make us better citizens and cure our ailing democracy-with guest Timothy Redmond
#78-Celebrating Skilled Intuition-a second look at Naturalistic Decision Making with guest Gary Klein
#77-The journey from the world of magicians and psychics to becoming a skeptical activist who promotes science and critical thinking-with guest Mark Edward
#76-How mathematics can improve our lives and make us better critical thinkers-with guest John Allen Paulos
#75-How to Get Real by Mastering and Using Critical Thinking-with guest Jon Guy
#74-Teaching and Learning Critical Thinking—back to the basics—with Melanie Trecek-King
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