Build Up Your Mental Immunity with Andy Norman on Skeptical Inquirer Presents

Andy Norman on Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think
Why are ideologies poisoning public discourse? Why is extremism on the rise? How do we develop a cultural “immune response” to the pandemic of dangerous ideas?

Find out Thursday, March 18 at 7pm ET on the next Skeptical Inquirer Presents live online event as philosopher Andy Norman discusses the ideas behind his book Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think.

“Mind-parasites” such as conspiracy theories, evidence-defying ideologies, and other garden-variety bad ideas, have compromised our cultural immune system, but Andy Norman says that we can also inoculate ourselves and “vaccinate” our minds against ideological corruption.

Free registration is required to take part in this live Zoom event, so sign up right now. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8CykTG9ITlCzsqzP9fQIYw

Andy Norman, an award-winning author and public philosopher, directs the Humanism Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University. He studies how ideologies short-circuit minds and corrupt moral understanding. Then he develops tools that help people reason together in more fruitful ways.

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