250 | Brendan Nyhan on Navigating the Information Ecosystem

<p>The modern world inundates us with both information and misinformation. What are the forces that conspire to make misinformation so prevalent? Can we combat the flow of misinformation, perhaps by legal restrictions? Would that even be a good idea? How can individuals help distinguish between true and false claims as they come in? What are the biases that we are all subject to? I talk to political scientist Brendan Nyhan about how information and misinformation spread, and what we can do as individuals and as a society to increase the amount of truth we all believe.</p><p>Blog post with transcript: <a href="https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/09/18/250-brendan-nyhan-on-navigating-the-information-ecosystem/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/09/18/250-brendan-nyhan-on-navigating-the-information-ecosystem/</a></p><p>S<em>upport Mindscape on&nbsp;</em><a href="https://www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Patreon</em></a><em>.</em></p><p>Brendan Nyhan received his Ph.D. in political science from Duke University. He is currently James O. Freedman professor of government at Dartmouth College. Among his awards are an Emerging Scholar award from the American Political Science Association, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.brendan-nyhan.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Web site</a></li><li><a href="https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dartmouth web page</a></li><li><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SbAA1v4AAAAJ&amp;hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Scholar publications</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Nyhan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/p