Speaker focuses on critical thinking to combat misinformation

Speaker focuses on critical thinking to combat misinformation
- September 13, 2022
- Cailin O’Connor, LPS, RIT, Sept. 13, 2022
Cailin O’Connor, a professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at University of California, Irvine, and co-author of The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, will be this year’s featured speaker for the Eugene H. Fram Signature Lecture in Critical Thinking, in collaboration with RIT’s College of Science. … O’Connor’s presentation will focus on the ways that misinformation can spread and be accepted, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. She will then address ways to combat misinformation and learn from it.
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