OpinionJuly 29, 2024
Social Media Is Junk Food for Information Foragers
Social media exploits our evolved need for information, feeding us fluff and outright misinformation. A new science of human collective behavior can help us retake control
Stories by Carl T. Bergstrom
Carl T. Bergstrom is a professor in the department of biology and a faculty member at the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington. Over the past decade, he has written numerous scholarly articles on the spread of misinformation. He is co-author of the undergraduate textbook Evolution and of Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World.
OpinionOctober 26, 2022
To Fight Misinformation, We Need to Teach That Science Is Dynamic
Science is a social process, and teaching students how researchers work in tandem to develop facts will make them less likely to be duped by falsehoods
BehaviorMarch 1, 2022
A High-Speed Scientific Hive Mind Emerged from the COVID Pandemic
The pandemic pushed researchers into new forms of rapid communication and collaboration