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Searching for Truth   This election season, it’s more important than ever to understand the science of misinformation as well as our own internal heuristics and biases. This month’s eBook examines the ways technology can be used to deceive, from Facebook and the spread of fake news to bias in AI. Our other selections look at how reasoning is affected by cognitive bias and the science behind hotly debated topics such as climate change.

Technology vs. Truth: Deception in the Digital Age In the digital age, information, both true and false, spreads faster than ever. The same technology that provides access to data across the globe can abet the warping of truth and normalization of lies. In this eBook, we examine the intersection of truth, untruth and technology, including how social media manipulates behavior, technologies such as deepfakes that spread misinformation, the bias inherent in algorithms and more.

Return to Reason: The Science of Thought Why do facts fail to change people’s minds? In this eBook, we examine how we form our beliefs and maintain them with a host of cognitive biases, the difference between intelligence and thinking rationally and some solutions for how to overcome these obstacles both in reasoning with others and in dealing with our own prejudices.

The Science Behind the Debates People say that they trust scientists, yet evidence often takes a back seat to emotions. In fact, for issues that cause the loudest public furor - like vaccine safety - there is almost no debate in the scientific community. In this eBook, we examine the science behind today’s most contentious debates including gun control, GMOs and evolution, as well as strategies for understanding and coping with denialism.

Health & Medicine Explore the cutting-edge science of everything from human health and epidemiology to biotechnology and medicine.

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