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Mental Immunity is gaining more and more media attention!
Check out the many places these ideas, our leadership team, and our affiliates are getting media coverage.

Our Press Releases

In the News: Mental Immunity

The concept of mental immunity provides a useful way of communicating how misinformation catches on and spreads.

• [NEW] How to Strengthen Your Mind’s Immunity to Bad Ideas in Fair Observer by Andy Norman
• The Israel-Hamas war is awash in deadly misinformation. What can we do about it? Boston Globe
• Coalition Launches “Freedom Friendly” Approach to Fighting Disinformation: Yahoo! Finance shares about MIP
• False information is everywhere. ‘Pre-bunking’ tries to head it off early: NPR covers pre-bunking, an important mental immunity tool
• Opinion: How the White House ‘prebunked’ Putin’s lies: How prebunking neutralized Vladimir Putin’s false Ukraine narrative
• The Country Inoculating Against Disinformation: How Estonia protects its citizens from weaponized information
• Can “Inoculation” Build Broad-Based Resistance to Misinformation?: Google Jigsaw explores ways to combat misinformation at scale

In the News: MIP Team and Affiliates

Learn more about the work of MIP’s affiliates and research partners. (newest additions at the top)

• [NEW] How to fight the war on facts (Dallas NPR Radio): Coverage of Lee McIntyre’s On Disinformation
• [NEW] On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy with Lee McIntyre and Tiffany Hsu (92nd Street Y, New York)
• ChatGPT and other generative AI could foster science denial and misunderstanding – here’s how you can be on alert (The Conversation) by Gale Sinatra (MIP affiliate) and Barbara K. Hofer
• There’s a Psychological ‘Vaccine’ against Misinformation (Scientific American): A review of Sander van der Linden’s book Foolproof (MIP affiliate)
• Hitting the Books: Why that one uncle of yours continually refuses to believe in climate change (Engadget): A revealing excerpt from Lee McIntyre’s How to Talk to a Science Denier
• The Scourge of “Mind Parasites” (Salon): An interview with Andy Norman about his book Mental Immunity
• Google Finds ‘Inoculating’ People Against Helps Blunt Its Power (New York Times): A report of a breakthrough study on inoculation. Highlights research coauthored by MIP affiliate Stephan Lewandowsky
• [POPULAR] Andy Norman on the Joe Rogan Experience: Andy Norman discusses his book Mental Immunity with Joe Rogan
• How to convince a science denier to reconsider their beliefs (CBC): An interview with Lee McIntyre about his book How to Talk to a Science Denier
• 502 Conversations with Melanie Trecek-King: Melanie Trecek-King discusses critical thinking and science education with host Brian Kerby
• [RECOMMENDED] A Life Preserver for Staying Afloat in a Sea of Misinformation with Melanie Trecek-King (Skeptical Inquirer Presents): Melanie Trecek-King explains FLOATER, her critical thinking toolkit
• Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and a Better Way to Think With Andy Norman (Skeptical Inquirer Presents): Andy Norman discusses his book Mental Immunity
• How to Talk to a Science Denier | Lee McIntyre (Center for Inquiry): Lee McIntyre discusses his book How to Talk to a Science Denier
• Andy Norman | The Search for a Better Way to Think (The Jordan Harbinger Show): A discussion of how mental immune systems work, how they go awry, and what we can do to make them more resilient
• How to Development Mental Immunity (The David Pakman Show): Andy Norman explains how to develop strong mental immunity

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