A suggestion, or let's be honest: a demand you'll hear from people is to do your own research. Before we get to far into the series it's a good idea to examine how to actually do that and not end up throwing yourself down a rabbit hole.

A funny skit including people doing confirmation bias: https://youtu.be/yJD1Iwy5lUY?list=PLuKg-Whduhklge1dMCGsemN1Qr_ODqjtZ&t=46

What is confirmation bias? https://www.britannica.com/science/confirmation-bias

Logical fallacies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies (yep it's wikipedia, time to go look at those citations!)

Age of reason: https://www.scholastic.com/parents/family-life/social-emotional-learning/development-milestones/age-reason.html, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK216770/

Age of logic: https://reboot-foundation.org/parent-guide/ages-10-to-12/

Algorithmic reinforcement: https://libguides.reynolds.edu/fakenews/bias, https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/12412910?hl=en

Motivated reasoning: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/motivated-reasoning

Cognitive dissonance: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/cognitive-dissonance

World prisoner stats: https://www.statista.com/statistics/262961/countries-with-the-most-prisoners/, https://www.prisonstudies.org/sites/default/files/resources/downloads/wppl_10.pdf

Loaded questions: https://study.com/academy/lesson/loaded-question-definition-examples.html

Reducing or increasing your odds of believing or not believing something: https://streetepistemology.com/

Misinformation vs disinformation: https://www.apa.org/topics/journalism-facts/misinformation-disinformation,

https://youtu.be/C6WTa1QmaF8?si=jfkUsyh09kYrdO6m, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gwbcDqTyGQ

Examples of disinformation and who has what to gain: https://www.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/news/2016/07/the-reason-you-have-bacon-on-your-breakfast-plate

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/16/joe-manchin-inflation-reduction-act-climate-law-radical-agenda-joe-biden

How long can conspiracies stay quiet?: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/26/secret-success-equations-give-calculations-for-keeping-conspiracies-quiet

How to build trust in news sources: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/strategies-building-trust-news-what-public-say-they-want-across-four-countries

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