Over the past few years, I’ve been building a collection of cartoon examples of denial techniques. This uses a technique known as parallel argumentation – transplanting the fallacies in misinformation into parallel, analogous situations. These cartoons were used extensively through … Continued
Over the past few months, I’ve been working with Facebook, in collaboration with Sander van der Linden (Cambridge University) and Tony Leiserowitz (Yale University), to debunk climate misinformation. This new project, titled “Facts About Climate Change“, launched on Facebook’s Climate … Continued
Now that the Teachers’ Guide to Cranky Uncle is available, and the Android & iPhone games let students play with group codes, teachers across the U.S. (not to mention the rest of the world) are already signing up to use … Continued
The Teachers’ Guide to Cranky Uncle offers background information and classroom activity ideas for educators interested in using the Cranky Uncle game to teach critical thinking in their classes. For teachers interested in using the Cranky Uncle game in their … Continued
Over the last year developing video lectures on countering climate misinformation, I’ve accumulated a video library of climate misinformation fallacies. Many of them were included in my epic 41-minute video 23 Ways to Mislead (well, it was epic putting that … Continued
Here is a new resource for educators, scientists, and climate communicators: a Powerpoint of FLICC denial techniques. It includes definitions of the various rhetorical techniques and logical fallacies in the FLICC taxonomy, as well as a number of cartoon examples. … Continued
One sobering lesson from last week’s Capitol riot is the dire consequences of conspiracy theories and misinformation. Today, the Cranky Uncle game expands to inoculate people against conspiratorial thinking. As we explain in the Conspiracy Theory Handbook, the way to inoculate people … Continued
Just in time for the holidays, the Cranky Uncle game is now available on Android! Our original plan was to release both iPhone and Android versions on December 15. Unfortunately, it took longer than expected for Google to approve the Android … Continued
The Cranky Uncle game has just launched! You can download it for free on iPhone now (the Android version will be available shortly). In this first release of the game, Cranky Uncle mentors you to become a Cranky Uncle yourself, explaining 14 … Continued
A critical thinking exercise I like to play in classrooms is role-playing a conversation between someone concerned about climate change and a climate-denying cranky uncle. After introducing the rhetorical techniques and logical fallacies used to distort science, I split the … Continued