Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Did you know that Harry Houdini and Abraham Lincoln were good friends and would often meet up? For example, see the picture above. There is of course one rather glaring flaw here. Lincoln was rather famously assassinated on 15 April 1865, and Houdini was born after that in 1874. How then is a picture such … Read more
For most, the loss of a child is an unimaginable devastation. For parents in Sandy Hook the nightmare became reality. Picture in your mind how you would cope and you might then begin to grasp the deep well of despair that they endured. What followed after that was deeply offensive, not just to the parents … Read more
There is an online game that you can play called “Bad News”. This however is not just any game, it has been specifically designed to psychologically train and inoculate those that play against Fake News and disinformation. How can this possibly work? The thinking behind this is research into what is known to some as … Read more
Latest updates on the defamation lawsuit by the Sandy Hook parents against Alex Jones for peddling conspiracies are quite frankly bizarre.
The new 2019 Digital News Report contains vast amounts of detail. It is global in scope and highlights the latest trends.
A recent fake news story is revealled to have been sourced from CEN. This small news agency appesr to churn out a constant stream of fake news