Conspiracy Theories

Social media gives people a platform and makes you more prone to seeing and learning that someone you know believes false ideas:

• Before you engage with someone to convince them that their claims are baseless, ask yourself what you’ll get out of it.
• If you’ve decided to en...

Stevia, a sugar substitute, is generally regarded as safe by health and food safety organizations. The studies that they rely on are industry-funded, so we have to take their take on this artificial sugar with a pinch of salt.

The World Health Organization says that the main extract o...

Good stories are simple. 

And when they seem coherent, we accept them without activating our critical mind (see "Main cause of biased judgment" in this collection). 

In particular, the conspiracy theories have another viral weapon. As the ele...