Podcast episode about multi-media nonsense with Barry Mauer.

Truth Recipe: Critical Thinking and Vaccination Against Multi-Media Nonsense with Barry Mauer PhD

Original Air Date Wednesday, February 14 , 2024.

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Mind viruses spread in the same manner as viruses in the body. Something is passed from one person to another. The person’s belief system or mental immune system processes the content of the information and either overcomes it and discards it or the virus takes over and causes an illness.

To discover tips for mental vaccinations and truth recipes, Harvesting Happiness Podcast Host Lisa Cypers Kamen speaks with an associate professor of English at the University of Central Florida and the author of Deadly Delusions: Right-Wing Death Cult and The Cognitive Immune System: The Mind’s Ability to Dispel Pathological Beliefs, Dr. Barry Mauer. Barry shares ways we can fortify our thinking against multi-media nonsense to be more productive and healthy.

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Podcast episode about critical thinking with Barry Mauer.

Barry Mauer, PhD, is on the cutting edge of research into cognitive immunity and the threats posed to it by the intersection of illiberal forces and electronic media. Barry is an associate professor of English at the University of Central Florida and is the author of Deadly Delusions: Right-Wing Death Cult and The Cognitive Immune System: The Mind’s Ability to Dispel Pathological Beliefs.

Barry collaborated on the DARPA-funded project, “Deep Agent: A Framework for Information Spread and Evolution in Social Networks.” Barry teaches symposiums on cognitive immunity including “The Age of Mass Delusion,” “Why Are People Fooled?” and “Propaganda and Pseudoscience.”

Barry Mauer PhD — The Recipe for Truth:

How bad ideas are spread. {2:58}
Mistrust can be engineered. {9:15}
The importance of belief evaluation. {17:09}
Current society encourages people to let go of constraints. {27:03}

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