Aug 6, 2023
On episode 182, we welcome Melanie Trecek-King to
discuss the power of critical thinking, how she transformed her
science-based curriculum into one more focused on teaching thinking
tools, beliefs in witchcraft and how experiential beliefs tend to
mislead us, leaving religion, the importance of learning how to
argue for and understand your opponents’ perspectives, the theory
of mental immunity, why anyone of us can be duped by charlatans,
our minds’ preference for simplistic and and logical stories and
our failure to account for what we don’t know, how to effectively
challenge conspiracy theories, and the various ways we tend to fool
ourselves.
Melanie Trecek-King is the creator of Thinking is Power and an
Associate Professor of Biology at Massasoit Community College,
where she teaches a general-education science course designed to
equip students with empowering critical thinking, information
literacy, and science literacy skills. Melanie is also the
Education Director for the Mental Immunity Project and
CIRCE
(Cognitive Immunology Research Collaborative), which aim to advance
and apply the science of mental immunity to inoculate minds against
misinformation.
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