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A version of this article originally appeared on NPR Scicommers
The brain treats questions about beliefs like physical threats. Can we learn to disarm it?
Street epistemologists are trying to give people 'the gift of doubt'
I am a proponent of science and a passionate advocate in general for bolstering public literacy of principles of science. I'm nearly finished with my master's degree in Education: Science and the Public, through the State University of New York at Buffalo. My goal is to write interesting and factual stories of ways that science literacy is being effectively improved in the contemporary United States, in hopes of contributing to this effort. I hope to perhaps inspire new creative ways for others to do it as well. I currently live in Phoenix, AZ, with my amazing wife and our two boys.