van der Linden, S., Lewandowsky, S., & Oreskes, N. (2024, September 20). Misinformation is real, and scholars need to study it. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
van der Linden, S., McIntyre, L., Lewandowsky, S. (2024, February 15). Disinformation threatens global elections – here’s how to fight back. The Conversation. Reposted by Psychology Today and Global Policy
Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J. (2023, November 20). Disinformation campaigns are undermining democracy. Here’s how we can fight back. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S., Lasser, J. (2023, September 25). Donald Trump’s truth: why liars might sometimes be considered honest – new research. The Conversation.
Kozyreva, A., Wineburg, S., Lewandowsky S. and Hertwig, R. (2023, March 27). Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens. Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Hertwig, R., Kozyreva, A., Wineburg, S. and Lewandowsky S. (2023, February 2). When critical thinking isn’t enough: to beat information overload, we need to learn ‘critical ignoring’. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S., Oswald, L., Lorenz-Spreen, P., & Hertwig, R. (2022, November 7). Is the global decline in democracy linked to social media? We combed through the evidence to find out. The Conversation. (Also in Indonesian here.)
Lewandowsky, S. & Lasser, J. (2022, September 22). US politicians tweet far more misinformation than those in the UK and Germany – new research. The Conversation.
van der Linden, S., Lewandowsky, S. & Roozenbeek, J. (2022, September 5). Prebunking: how to build resilience against online misinformation. Context.
Roozenbeek, J., van der Linden, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2022, August 24). YouTube: how a team of scientists worked to inoculate a million users against misinformation. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S., & Kozyreva, A. (2022, April 7). Algorithms, Lies, and Social Media. NiemanLab.
Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. (2022, January 2). Life after COVID: most people don’t want a return to normal – they want a fairer, more sustainable future. The Conversation. (reprinted in World Financial Review).
Lewandowsky, S., & Schmid, P. (2021, December 9). Tackling COVID disinformation with empathy and conversation. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S. (2021, December 3). Technology and Democracy: A paradox wrapped in a contradiction inside an irony. Imperfect Cognitions.
Lewandowsky, S., & Schmid, P. (2021, October). How to fight COVID vaccine misinformation? The Financial Express.
Lewandowsky, S., & Schmid, P. (2021, October). How to fight COVID vaccine misinformation? Al Jazeera.
Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2021, August). Many conservatives have a difficult relationship with science – we wanted to find out why. The Conversation.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Jetter, M. (2020, November). How Trump uses Twitter to distract the media – new research. The Conversation.
Cook, J., van der Linden, S., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. (2020, May). Coronavirus, ‘Plandemic’ and the seven traits of conspiratorial thinking. The Conversation. (Spanish version here). Also reposted by FastCompany, Snopes, WEF, Flipboard.
Dennis, S. J., Perfors, A., Little, D. R., White, J. P., Mitchell, L., Geard, N., Garrett, P. M., & Lewandowsky, S. (2020, May). 70% of people surveyed said they’d download a coronavirus app. Only 44% did. Why the gap? The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S., & Cook, J. (2020, April). Coronavirus conspiracy theories are dangerous – here’s how to stop them spreading. The Conversation.
Bligh, A., Jolley, D., Bergmann, E., Grodzicka, E. D., Douglas, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2020, April). How dangerous are conspiracy theories? Listen to part five of our expert guide. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S., & Hunter, J. (2020, January). We have the vaccine for climate disinformation – let’s use it. The Conversation. (Spanish version at https://www.climatica.lamarea.com/vacuna-desinformacion-climatica/).
Lewandowsky, S. (2019, December 19). Why people vote for politicians they know are liars. The Conversation. (Indonesian version: Mengapa orang-orang memilih politikus yang jelas-jelas tukang bohong. The Conversation, 9 January 2020). (Reprinted in PMP Magazine; https://vip.politicsmeanspolitics.com/2020/01/13/why-people-vote-for-politicians-they-know-are-liars/.)
Lewandowsky, S. (2019, November 5). Countering Fake News? Learn from Cognitive Science! PeaceLab, Global Public Policy Institute.
Lewandowsky, S. (2019, October 31). How Ireland has managed to protect itself from populism. The Irish Times.
Cook, J., Supran, G., Oreskes, N., Maibach, E., & Lewandowsky, S. (2019, October 23). Exxon has misled Americans on climate change for decades. Here’s how to fight back. The Guardian.
Renouf, J. S., Mann, M. E., Cook, J., Wright, C., Steffen, S., Nunn, P., Dube, P., Jouzel, J., Lewandowsky, S., Poelina, A., & Richardson, K. (2019, September, 27). Why universities need to declare an ecological and climate emergency. Times Higher Education.
(French version: Pourquoi les universités doivent déclarer l’état d’urgence écologique et climatique, November 17, The Conversation).
Lewandowsky, S. (2019, August 14). Gaslighting: from partners to politicians – how to avoid becoming a victim. The Conversation. (Reprinted in Metro News and Livewire)
Lewandowsky, S. (2019, August 13). Disinformation and human cognition. Security and Human Rights Monitor.
Lewandowsky, S. (2019, January 5). A new tool can help us determine which conspiracy theories are false and which might be true. LSE US Centre. (#4 out of 380 articles published in 2019).
Lewandowsky, S., & Lynam, J. (2018, December 29). Combating ‘fake news’: The 21st century civic duty. The Irish Times.
Cowtan, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2018, December 19). Global warming ‘hiatus’ is the climate change myth that refuses to die. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S. (2018, August 23). Opinión: ¿El creacionismo es la máxima teoría conspiratoria? Newsweek en Español. [Translation of Conversation piece from day before].
Lewandowsky, S. (2018, August 22). There’s a psychological link between conspiracy theories and creationism. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S. (2016, November). Post-truth politics: Why do facts no longer matter to so many people? PolicyBristol Hub.
Lewandowsky, S. (2016, August). The Galileo gambit and other stories: the three main tactics of climate denial. The Conversation.
Baue, B., Eccles, B., Gorte, J., Hayman, C., Lewandowsky, S., Murtha, T. O., Oreskes, N., Pancost, R., & Rogers, J. (2016, June). The Missing 60%: ExxonMobil, Forceful Stewardship and the 2°C Business Model Imperative. Huffington Post.
Lewandowsky, S. (2016, June). Why is populism popular? A psychologist explains. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S. (2016, January). We just had the hottest year on record – where does that leave climate denial? The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S., Pancost, R., and Ballard, T. (2015, December). Uncertainty is Exxon’s friend, but it’s not ours. The Guardian.
Lewandowsky, S., Risbey, J., and Oreskes, N. (2015, November 26). Hiatus or Bye-atus. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/11/hiatus-or-bye-atus/ (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6puufuXoA)
Lewandowsky, S. (2015, November). Global warming ‘pause’ was a myth all along, says new study. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S. (2015, October) ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’ mechanics: the rejection of (climate) science. Open Democracy.
van der Linden, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2015, 28 April). How to Combat Distrust of Science. Scientific American.
Lewandowsky, S., & Pancost, R. (2014, 6 November). Are you a poor logician? Logically, you might never know. The Conversation.
Pancost, R., & Lewandowsky, S. (2014, 16 October). Why climate ‘uncertainty’ is no excuse for doing nothing. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S. (2014, May 18). Uncertainty makes tackling climate change more urgent. University World News.
Lewandowsky, S. (2014, 16 April). From conspiracy theories to climate change denial, a cognitive psychologist explains. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S., (2014, March 1). Australian Antarctic Expedition: the power of pictures. The Guardian.
Lewandowsky, S., and Whitmarsh, L. (2014, March). Mind over matter. Geographical. (Official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, U.K.).
Lewandowsky, S., and Cook, J. (2014, February 6). Establishing consensus is vital for climate action. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S. (2014, January 6). An icebreaker gets stuck in the ice, photos are used to mislead. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S. (2013, December 6). Media failure on Iraq War repeated in climate change coverage. The Guardian.
Lewandowsky, S. (2013, November 7). Look out for that turbine! Climate sceptics are the real Chicken Littles. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S., Mann, M. E., Bauld, L., Hastings, G., & Loftus, E. F. (2013, November 1). The subterranean war on science. APS Observer, online only.
Lewandowsky, S., Risby, J., & Oreskes, N. (2013, September 26). Climate change is not all disaster and uncertainty. Scientific American.
Lewandowsky, S. (2013, October). Right, left, wrong: People reject science because… The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S., Risbey, J., & Oreskes, N. (2013, September). Climate change is not all disaster and uncertainty. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S. (2013, July). Freedom of speech is not freedom to spin. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S., Gignac, G. E., & Oberauer, K. (2013, June). Lies, damn lies, and science. Australasian Science, 34(5), 14-16.
Lewandowsky, S. (2013, May 20). No matter how strong the evidence on climate change, deniers will keep denying. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S. (2012, December 31). Critical corrections in the climate debate. ABC TV “The Drum”.
Lewandowsky, S. (2012, December 6). The real debate on climate is happening in San Francisco. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S. (2012, November 7). Sandy sways opinion on climate change. New Zealand Herald.
Lewandowsky, S. (2012, November 5). A storm of stupidity? Sandy, evidence and climate change. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S. (2012, Oct 31). Superstorm Sandy and the climate debate surge. ABC TV “The Drum”.
Lewandowsky, S. (2012, August 14). Health ministers’ attacks on climate change action are just sick. (repost of Lewandowsky, 2012, August 10, in the The Conversation). Reprinted on Science Network WA. Retrieved from http://www.sciencewa.net.au/science-in-wa/the-conversation
Lewandowsky, S. (2012, August 10). Health ministers’ attacks on climate change action are just sick. The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S. (2012, May 7). Are Heartland billboards the beginning of the end for climate denial? The Conversation.
Lewandowsky, S. (2012, April 30). World views dominate the unwinnable war on climate. ABC TV “The Drum”.
Lewandowsky, S. (2012, April 26). Sceptics must start warming to the reality of climate science. Retrieved from http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/sceptics-must-start-warming-to-the-reality-of-climate-science-20120425-1xlhh.html . (also published in the print edition of The Age, and online edition of Sydney Morning Herald).
Lewandowsky, S. (2012, April 24). I can change your mind about science on the ABC. ABC TV “The Drum”.
Lewandowsky, S. (2012, February 22). The morality of unmasking Heartland. The Conversation.
Ecker, U. K. H., Cook, J., & Lewandowsky, S. (2012, February 3). Fighting fact-free journalism: a how-to guide. Retrieved from http://theconversation.edu.au/fighting-fact-free-journalism-a-how-to-guide-5125.
Lewandowsky, S. (2012, January 10). Shock-jock tactics for climate debate. (repost of Lewandowsky, 2011, September 1, in the Guardian). Retrieved from http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/online/5144/shock-jock-tactics-climate-debate.
Ecker, U. K. H., and Lewandowsky, S. (2011, December 17). Why The Guardian’s correction won’t change your mind about Milly Dowler. Retrieved from https://theconversation.edu.au/why-the-guardians-correction-wont-change-your-mind-about-milly-dowler-4783.
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, December 11). Global climate change pact in Durban: expert comment. Retrieved from https://theconversation.edu.au/global-climate-change-pact-in-durban-expert-comment-4671#comments.
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, December 2). Climate change: greater the uncertainty, greater the risk. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3707928.html.
Lewandowsky, S. & Sherwood, S. (2011, November, 24). Way off balance: science and the mainstream media. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.edu.au/way-off-balance-science-and-the-mainstream-media-4080
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, November, 23). Attacks on climate scientists are the real ‘climategate’. The Guardian. Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/nov/23/attacks-climate-scientists-real-climategate
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, November, 23). There is a real climategate out there. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.edu.au/there-is-a-real-climategate-out-there-4428
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, November 16). Why do people reject science? ABC Science. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/11/16/3366790.htm
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, November, 11). Why do people reject science? Here’s why… The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.edu.au/why-do-people-reject-science-heres-why-4050
Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2011, September). How mud sticks. The Skeptic (Australia), Vol. 31, No. 3, 26–28.
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, September, 5). Climate sceptic science: read with caution. ABC TV “The Drum”. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2870492.html
Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. (2011, September 1). Warning: your journalism may contain deception, inaccuracies and a hidden agenda. The Conversation, Retrieved from http://theconversation.edu.au/warning-your-journalism-may-contain-deception-inaccuracies-and-a-hidden-agenda-2930?utm_source=The+Conversation+Daily+updates&utm_campaign=d4893c7908-DailyNewsletter&utm_medium=email
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, September, 1). Australia’s climate scientists expose shock-jock distortion tactics. The Guardian, Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/01/australia-climate-scientists
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, August 29). Selling climate uncertainty: misinformation and the media. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.edu.au/selling-climate-uncertainty-misinformation-and-the-media-2638
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, August 5). Why scientists won’t debate Lord Monckton. Retrieved from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10742945
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, August 3). Polar bear scientist on thin ice in Arctic imbroglio. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.edu.au/polar-bear-scientist-on-thin-ice-in-arctic-imbroglio-2650
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, July 18). The difference between scientific debate and phoney talkfests. ABC TV “The Drum”. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2798990.html
Lewandowsky, S. & Risbey, J. (2011, July 11). What’s in a frame? Evidence and emissions should drive our understanding of climate change. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.edu.au/whats-in-a-frame-evidence-and-emissions-should-drive-our-understanding-of-climate-change-2446
Lewandowsky, S., Lawrence, C., & Garnaut, R. (2011, July 9). Ross Garnaut discusses the economics behind the carbon tax. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.edu.au/ross-garnaut-discusses-the-economics-behind-the-carbon-tax-2207
Lewandowsky, S., & Ashley, M. (2011, June 24). The false, the confused and the mendacious: how the media gets it wrong on climate change. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.edu.au/the-false-the-confused-and-the-mendacious-how-the-media-gets-it-wrong-on-climate-change-1558
Lewandowsky, S., & Ashley, M. (2011, June 22). A journey into the weird and wacky world of climate change denial. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.edu.au/a-journey-into-the-weird-and-wacky-world-of-climate-change-denial-1554
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, June 20). Climate change denial and the abuse of peer review. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.edu.au/climate-change-denial-and-the-abuse-of-peer-review-1552
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, June 15). Why Australia is vulnerable to both climate change and climate sceptics. The Guardian Environment Blog. Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog?page=5
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, June 1). History shows Australia is no pissant when it comes to emissions. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.edu.au/history-shows-australia-is-no-pissant-when-it-comes-to-emissions-1589
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, May 16). Climate change logic lost in translation. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.edu.au/climate-change-logic-lost-in-translation-1279.
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, April 28). The truth is out there. ABC TV “The Drum”. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/266186.html
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, April 28). Balance the evidence not the opinions on climate change. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.edu.au/balance-the-evidence-not-the-opinions-on-climate-change-952
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, April 5). Infantile climate discussion rages while the atmosphere chokes. The Conversation. Retrieved from http://theconversation.edu.au/infantile-climate-discussion-rages-while-the-atmosphere-chokes-557
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, March 28). Bitten by a sock puppet, but the climate is still changing. ABC TV “The Drum”. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/45638.html
Lewandowsky, S. (2011, January 14). Lies, damn lies, and statistics. ABC TV “The Drum”. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/43020.html
Lewandowsky, S. (2010, November 17). Merchants of doubt return. The West Australian, p. 8.
Lewandowsky, S. (2010, November 2). Climate change: are you willing to take the risk? ABC TV “The Drum”. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/40652.html
Lewandowsky, S. (2010, August 12). No climate change alternatives. ABC TV “The Drum”. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/35848.html
Lewandowsky, S. (2010, May 3). Evidence is overrated when you’re a conspiracy theorist. ABC TV “The Drum”. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/33900.html
Lewandowsky, S. (2010, March 29). The peer reviewed literature has spoken. ABC TV “The Drum”. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/39148.html
Lewandowsky, S. (2010, March 11). Climate debate: opinion vs evidence. ABC TV “The Drum”. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/33178.html
Lewandowsky, S. (2009, December 5). Fraction too much friction in ‘climategate’. The Age, pp. 9
Lewandowsky, S. (2007, November 9). A sceptic’s guide to politics. The Canberra Times, pp. 15