(Ep. 3) Critical Thinking Revealed: Dr. John Cook, Cognitive Psychologist on Climate Misinformation

In the third episode of our new podcast, "Critical Thinking Revealed," Dr. Linda Elder interviews cognitive psychologist Dr. John Cook. Dr. Cook's work focuses on arming people with tools to recognize and reduce the influence of misinformation, and particularly misinformation around climate change. Throughout the discussion, Dr. Elder explicates the critical thinking moves in Dr. Cook's work and reasoning.
Dr. John Cook is a research assistant professor at the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, researching cognitive science. In 2007, he founded Skeptical Science, a website which won the 2011 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for the Advancement of Climate Change Knowledge and 2016 Friend of the Planet Award from the National Center for Science Education. John co-authored the college textbooks "Climate Change: Examining the Facts" with Weber State University professor Daniel Bedford. He was also a coauthor of the textbook "Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis" and the book "Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand." In 2013, he published a paper analyzing the scientific consensus on climate change that has been highlighted by President Obama and UK Prime Minister David Cameron. In 2015, he developed a Massive Open Online Course at the University of Queensland on climate science denial, that has received over 25,000 enrollments.
John earned his PhD in Cognitive Science at the University of Western Australia in 2016.
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