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BS 208 "Foolproof" with Sander van der Linden

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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The Pros and Cons of Inoculating Science

A fact-based inoculation which literally creates a weakened dose out of the falsehood and then refutes it in advance and forewarns people. Forewarning is meant to jumpstart the psychological immune system because people are generally not paying attention but if you tell them that there's actors out there trying to manipulate their opinion when we perceive manipulative intent all of a sudden that puts us in a heightened state of awareness. A technique-based pre-bunk which is more suited for situations where you think people aren't going to be able to defend themselves against COVID vaccines. And so I talk about different ways that you can inoculate and one is the what we call the issue base of a fact

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