Spotting Fake News/Critical Thinking

Books about how to critical assess sources of information and spot fake information.

Updated December 17, 2024
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Age of Magical Overthinking : Notes on Modern Irrationality
Montell, Amanda
Ebook
In the modern information age, our brain's coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to eleven. Amanda Montell blends cultural criticism and personal narrative to explore our modern cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages and highlights of magical overthinking....
Foolproof : why misinformation infects our minds and how to build immunity /
Van der Linden, Sander.
Paper Book
Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023Nature's Top 10 Books of 2023A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023?A Waterstones Book of the Year for Politics 2023 Fake news. Alternative facts. Conspiracy theories. Misinformation is one of the defining...
How to talk to a science denier : conversations with flat Earthers, climate deni
McIntyre, Lee C.
Paper Book
Can we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronavirus truthers, and others. "Climate change is a hoax--and so is coronavirus." "Vaccines are bad for you." These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer...
Factfulness : ten reasons we're wrong about the world--and why things are better
Rosling, Hans.
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "One of the most important books I've ever read--an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world." - Bill Gates "Hans Rosling tells the story of 'the secret silent miracle of human progress' as only he can. But...
Think again : the power of knowing what you don't know /
Grant, Adam M.
Paper Book
#1 New York Times Bestseller "THIS. This is the right book for right now. Yes, learning requires focus. But, unlearning and relearning requires much more--it requires choosing courage over comfort. In Think Again, Adam Grant weaves together research and...
Rationality : what it is, why it seems scarce, why it matters /
Pinker, Steven, 1954-
Paper Book
Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, and illusions. But cognitive scientist and rational optimist Steven Pinker argues that this cannot be the whole picture. A list of the ways in which we are stupid...

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