#Conspire magazine series
He is a writer on the upcoming NBC disaster-science series The End is Nye. Pamela is currently the psychology and neuroscience editor at, EIC of several newsstand titles a year from Centennial Media and PopSci, and author of Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic.Ĭorey is the former editor in chief of Discover and American Scientist magazines, as well as a podcaster and freelance writer who has collaborated on five New York Times bestselling books. Here we also explore how scientific ideas influence pop culture, and vice versa.īS Alert - stories calling out bad science, bad science reporting, and bad media representations: showing what went wrong and why, exploring the potential for harm, as well as analyzing outstanding examples of difficult science communication done well. how history, politics, class, gender, access, and economic impediments across society impact different populations and block people from sharing in the benefits of science. Here we cover styles of education, methods for challenging entrenched attitudes, and novel tools for science communication. stories covering the psychology and neuroscience of information, learning, and belief. This category includes investigations into the problems of research, replication, and communication that arise within the scientific community itself. Here we cover science-related ethical issues, such as debates over social genomics, which are defined by personal and societal values.Ĭonspiracies - This category includes the sociology, politics, culture, and economics of active misinformation in all its forms: denialism, weaponized “free thinking,” and misleading agendas, in addition to all-out conspiracy theories.ĭeceptions - explorations into how we decide what qualifies as validated science, and the harms caused by spurious claims. hot topics of scientific debate, as well as important areas of dispute that are under-reported in the popular media. If you would like to join our mission and write for us, check out our pitch guidelines. SLF has provided start-up funding for OpenMind. OpenMind was inspired by entrepreneur Brian Cohen, Chairman of the Science Literacy Foundation, who felt an urgent need to promote critical thinking in a public inundated with disinformation, misinformation, and fake news. We are open to a wide variety of voices from diverse contributors from the journalistic and academic worlds. We take a pluralistic approach, publishing a variety of perspectives and points of view. Our goal is not just deeper understanding, but finding a path to happier, healthier, and more just world. In every area, we seek out ways to do better.
We interrogate bad science journalism and media, analyze exemplars of reporting done well, discuss the latest cognitive research on how we think about science, untangle the politics of science, and examine how culture and history influence the ways different groups interact with the scientific enterprise. We confront misinformation, conspiracy theories, and problematic ways of communicating scientific ideas. We aim to offer clarifying perspectives and fresh insights on the most important issues in science and technology. Everyone is vulnerable to manipulation, especially when bombarded with information overload and forced to adapt to fast-developing technologies. We are motivated by the enormous global challenges, from the Covid pandemic to the climate crisis, that force us to confront the damaging ways that public understanding of science can be twisted. Our goals are to expand public understanding of the scientific method and to extend the benefits of science to the widest possible audience while combating rampant disinformation. We publish public service science journalism at the crossroads of culture and politics, addressing areas from biomedicine to neuroscience to technology. OpenMind is a digital magazine covering disinformation, controversy, cognitive manipulation, and conspiracy theory in science.
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