I was just on the I Can’t Believe It’s Not News podcast talking about fake news, academic fake news (e.g., fake conferences, scam publishers), open access publishing, and what it’s like to look like Neil Patrick Harris. I had a great time. The hosts, Beth and Elizabeth, are very fun and resourceful. You can preview and listen to the podcast below.

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You can listen to the podcast in the player below. (In case you care, I join the podcast somewhere around 4:10 and leave around 52:30.)

You can also listen to I Can’t Believe It’s Not News with Beth and Elizabeth from their website (podcastfakenews.libsyn.com), from Apple Podcasts (here), or from wherever you get podcasts.

And you can find Beth and Elizabeth’s podcast online via Twitter, Facebook, or email. Beth and Elizabeth are great about this. We’ve emailed back and forth a few times now. In fact, I was one of the people who recommended that Beth and Elizabeth do an episode about the psychology of conspiracy theories with Dr. Dan Jolley. And that has turned out to be one of my favorite episodes so far. If you’ve got ideas or questions about fake news, let them know.

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Preview

We talked about a few things. Here are some of the questions that we discussed.

Fake news. Why did I become interested in fake news? And why did I blog about it? Research. How is my research about human reasoning related to fake news? And what do I think we can do about fake news? Academic Fake News. What is an example of academic fake news? Why is there academic fake news? What can academics do about it? Scholarly Hoaxes. What is a scholarly publishing hoax? Have you heard about the hoax paper titled, “The Conceptual Penis…“? What does that hoax tells us about the journal that published it? And what does it tell us about the field of gender studies? What does this tell us about open access publishing? Doppelgängers. What is it like looking like Neil Patrick Harris? How do I make it fun? How can I make it more fun?

Related Posts

If we want to stop fake news, we need to do some fact-checking. But is that enough? I don’t think so. I explain why in “Fact-checking is not enough. We need argument-checking.”

And do people even care about facts or arguments? What does psychology tell us about this? I explain in “Is post-fact reasoning redeemable?”

There are a lot of podcasts related to my research in philosophy and psychology. Here’s a list: “40+ Cognitive Science and/or Philosophy Podcasts“.

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