BREAKING NEWS:
Lee is going to appear on the premier episode of a new docuseries called INFODEMIC: Global Conversations on Science and Misinformation, which will be telecast on Link TV on May 2nd and will air on select PBS stations nationwide this summer. Join the conversation on social media using #Infodemic. Follow the series on Twitter @InfodemicSeries for updates and details on upcoming episodes.
Learn more
Watch the Trailer
Latest News
Watch Lee’s appearance at the Aspen Institute’s session on “Overcoming Science Denialism” at the Global Congress on Scientific Thinking and Action
Lee appeared in a panel discussion through UConn Reads to discuss the problem of Truth, Democracy, and Climate Change
If you understand Italian, please read Lee’s interview on how to combat science denial in Corriere della Sera, from his appearance at Aspen Institute Italia
Lee appeared with Tom Nichols on the “Utterly Moderate” podcast to consider the question Do Facts Matter Anymore?
Read Lee’s interview with the Digital Future Society on “Post-Truth and the Danger of Disbelief”
Lee was quoted in the VOX article “The Danger of the New Skepticism“
Lee was on the podcast COVID 19 Conversations (South Africa): “Fighting the War Against Vaccine Hesitancy”
How to Talk to a Science Denier is now available for pre-order!
Lee was quoted in Eoin O’Carroll’s article “After a ‘post truth’ presidency, can America make facts real again?” in the Christian Science Monitor
Read Lee’s article “How to Handle Post-Truth Now that Trump is Gone“
Lee was a panelist on Big Picture Science to discuss the problem of “Disinformation and Shared Reality”
Lee was interviewed about “Lies and Fake News” on Radio New Zealand
Lee was quoted in Peter Baker’s article “In Era of Trump Fictions, Trust Looms as Casualty” in the New York Times
Post-Truth was quoted in Joe Klein’s article “Does An Intellectual History of the Trump Era Exist? It Does Now,” in the New York Times
Lee’s work was discussed in Carlos Lozada’s book What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
Lee was honored to be selected to write an essay on the dangers of “Post-Truth” for the graphic novel Information Warfare and the Future of Conflict published by the Army Cyber Institute at West Point.
Read Lee’s article “How To Talk to COVID-19 Deniers” in Newsweek
Lee’s work on how to talk to science deniers was profiled in Physics World
Post-Truth was named part of the “Anti-Fascist Toolkit” at Shakespeare and Co. Rittenhouse Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA
Post-Truth: Interview with Lee McIntyre on the Future Hindsight Podcast
Listen to Lee discussing “Climate of Denial” on the Ministry of Ideas Podcast
Watch Lee’s interview on “Post-Truth and the Coronavirus” on The David Pakman Show:
Hear Lee in a panel discussion called “How Bad Does it Have to Get?” co-sponsored by SETI and the BBC
Lee appeared on ON POINT on WBUR/NPR in Boston for their four-part series called “In Search of Truth.” Lee’s segment was called “Are We Living in a Post-Truth World?”
The Scientific Attitude was named a finalist in philosophy for the PROSE Awards
Watch Lee talk about Post-Truth and science denial with Michel Martin on Amanpour and Company on PBS/CNN International:
Lee appeared on BIG PICTURE SCIENCE (sponsored by the SETI Institute) with Seth Shostak to talk about how to engage with science deniers and pseudoscientists
Read Lee’s article in Salon on “Five Ways Trump and His Supporters are Using the Same Strategies as Science Deniers”
Lee appeared on THE AGENDA with Steve Paikin to talk about defending science:
Lee talks about The Philosophy of Climate Denial on “Trump on Earth” (NPR Pittsburgh)
Lee was interviewed by The New Humanist
The Scientific Attitude was reviewed in The Guardian
The Scientific Attitude was reviewed in Publishers Weekly
Post-Truth was named to Forbes Magazine “A College Reading List for the Post-Truth Era”
Lee was interviewed by The Freethink Tank
Lee appeared on Science Salon with Michael Shermer
Lee spoke at the Cambridge Forum, which was televised on WGBH Forum Network:
Lee appeared on the podcast Thinking Clearly
Lee published an essay “Defending Science Through Its Values” with Inside Higher Education
Lee wrote “The Mueller Hearing and the Death of Facts,” from The Conversation
Lee’s article on Flat Earth and the Rise of Science Denial in America was reprinted as the
cover story in the print edition of Newsweek! (June 14, 2019)
“The Earth is Round…. But the Flat Earth movement is growing, and its tactics are spreading. It’s time we learned how to talk to science deniers.” (Read more)
Lee spoke on “Defending Science from Denial and Fraud” at the Seattle Town hall. Click here for TV, here for radio and here for the podcast.
See Lee discuss his newest book on Science for the Public
Lee discusses The Scientific Attitude on The Robert Wright Show. Click here for TV and here for the podcast.
Hear Lee talk about Defending Science on WBUR’s RADIO BOSTON
Lee appeared on his hometown (Portland, Oregon) TV station to talk about his new book
Read Lee’s article in Salon on Robert Mueller and the Post-Truth Era
Lee was interviewed on public radio in Seattle, The Record with Bill Radke, “How to Talk to a Flat Earther”
(Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Watch Lee talk about his books on Novel Ideas:
Hear Lee on this WBUR podcast about vaccine denial
Lee was interviewed by the legendary Philip Adams on Australian Public Radio, “Defending science from denial, fraud and pseudoscience” with Philip Adams
Hear Lee on drive time radio in Los Angeles: Background Briefing with Ian Masters (scroll down), KPFK Radio
Lee was interviewed on Oregon public radio: How to Win an Argument with a Science Doubter, The Jefferson Exchange
Lee did a book signing at East End Books in Provincetown, MA
See Lee’s op-ed “How to Reverse the Assault on Science” in Scientific American
Read an excerpt from The Scientific Attitude entitled “How Do We Reverse the Tide of an Anti-Science America?” that appeared in Lithub
Lee appeared on The Young Turks to talk about “Defending Science in the Post-Truth Era”:
Lee appeared on Grok’s Science
Lee talked about science denial on The Richard French Show:
Lee wrote an article in The Boston Globe on “What’s So Special About Science?”
Q&A with Lee about The Scientific Attitude on Inside Higher Ed
Listen to an interview with Lee about The Scientific Attitude on The Tom Sumner Program
Hear Lee talk about The Scientific Attitude on Ideasphere, PRX Radio
Lee interviewed about The Scientific Attitude on Give and Take (podcast)
Lee talks about The Scientific Attitude on The Peter Tilden Show, KABC Radio
Lee was interviewed about The Scientific Attitude on FutureProof (Irish Newstalk radio)
Lee was on Swedish public radio
Hear Lee talk about “why everyone should think like a scientist” on the Octavian Report
Lee did a segment called “One philosopher’s quest to take philosophy back to the streets” on “Tapestry with Mary Hynes” on CBC Radio
Lee did a segment called “Ask a Philosopher” on “All Of It” with Alison Stewart on WNYC:
Lee spoke on a panel that addressed the question “Did Truth Ever Matter” at the Getty Center in Los Angeles:
Post-Truth was named one of “6 books to help you understand the world” in The Week
Lee was featured in an article on “Fake News and Truth” in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper (Japan)
Lee was inteviewed on “Top of Mind with Julie Rose” about his time at the “Ask a Philosopher” booth in New York City
Lee’s article “Could a Booster Shot of Truth Help Scientists Fight the Anti-Vaccine Crisis?” appeared in The Conversation
Post-Truth was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2018
Post-Truth was named a “Best Book of 2018” on the PBS News Hour
Lee’s op-ed on his time at the “Ask A Philosopher” booth was published in The Conversation
Lee was featured in an article in Wired Italia
Lee was interviewed on New England Authors
Lee was interviewed in Get Lit Beacon
Lee has a new article in Newsweek
Lee has a new book—THE SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE—coming out with MIT Press in April 2019
Hear Lee talk about “fake news” on The Greg and Dan Show:
Hear Lee’s interview with Nebraska NPR
Note: Fast-forward to 8:55 for Lee’s interview
Hear Lee’s interview with “America’s Best-Selling Authors” at The LawBusiness Insider
Lee discusses Post-Truth with The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Post-Truth was just reviewed in the Washington Post
Post-Truth was just reviewed in the New York Review of Books
Lee discusses Post-Truth on Sunday Edition (CBC/Radio Canada):
Post-Truth was named a CNN book-of-the-week by Fareed Zakaria
Hear Lee talk about Post-Truth on the Brian Lehrer Show (NPR):
Hear Lee talk about Post-Truth on the Colin McEnroe Show (NPR)
Read Lee’s article “Why Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin lie… and why they are so good at it” in New Statesman
Read Lee’s article “The Price of Denialism” in The New York Times
Watch Lee speak at the the Harvard Humanist Club on “Truth in an Era of Fake News”:
Respecting Truth has won the 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in Philosophy
Read Lee’s article “The Attack on Truth” in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Read Lee’s article “Making Philosophy Matter—or Else” in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Read Lee’s article “The Dark Ages of Social Science” in The Humanist
Dark Ages is now widely available in paperback
Dark Ages has won the Silver Award for Philosophy in the 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards
BREAKING NEWS:
Lee is going to appear on the premier episode of a new docuseries called INFODEMIC: Global Conversations on Science and Misinformation, which will be telecast on Link TV on May 2nd and will air on select PBS stations nationwide this summer. Join the conversation on social media using #Infodemic. Follow the series on Twitter @InfodemicSeries for updates and details on upcoming episodes.
Learn more
Watch the Trailer
Latest News
Watch Lee’s appearance at the Aspen Institute’s session on “Overcoming Science Denialism” at the Global Congress on Scientific Thinking and Action
Lee appeared in a panel discussion through UConn Reads to discuss the problem of Truth, Democracy, and Climate Change
If you understand Italian, please read Lee’s interview on how to combat science denial in Corriere della Sera, from his appearance at Aspen Institute Italia
Lee appeared with Tom Nichols on the “Utterly Moderate” podcast to consider the question Do Facts Matter Anymore?
Read Lee’s interview with the Digital Future Society on “Post-Truth and the Danger of Disbelief”
Lee was quoted in the VOX article “The Danger of the New Skepticism”
Lee was on the podcast COVID 19 Conversations (South Africa): “Fighting the War Against Vaccine Hesitancy”
How to Talk to a Science Denier is now available for pre-order!
Lee was quoted in Eoin O’Carroll’s article “After a ‘post truth’ presidency, can America make facts real again?” in the Christian Science Monitor
Read Lee’s article “How to Handle Post-Truth Now that Trump is Gone“
Lee was a panelist on Big Picture Science to discuss the problem of “Disinformation and Shared Reality”
Lee was interviewed about “Lies and Fake News” on Radio New Zealand
Lee was quoted in Peter Baker’s article “In Era of Trump Fictions, Trust Looms as Casualty” in the New York Times
Post-Truth was quoted in Joe Klein’s article “Does An Intellectual History of the Trump Era Exist? It Does Now,” in the New York Times
Lee’s work was discussed in Carlos Lozada’s book What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
Lee was honored to be selected to write an essay on the dangers of “Post-Truth” for the graphic novel Information Warfare and the Future of Conflict published by the Army Cyber Institute at West Point.
Read Lee’s article “How To Talk to COVID-19 Deniers” in Newsweek
Lee’s work on how to talk to science deniers was profiled in Physics World
Post-Truth was named part of the “Anti-Fascist Toolkit” as Shakespeare and Co. Rittenhouse Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA
Post-Truth: Interview with Lee McIntyre on the Future Hindsight Podcast
Listen to Lee discussing “Climate of Denial” on the Ministry of Ideas Podcast
Listen to Lee’s interview on “Post-Truth and the Coronavirus” on The David Pakman Show
Hear Lee in a panel discussion called “How Bad Does it Have to Get?” co-sponsored by SETI and the BBC.
Lee appeared on ON POINT on WBUR/NPR in Boston for their four-part series called “In Search of Truth.” Lee’s segment was called “Are We Living in a Post-Truth World?”
The Scientific Attitude was named a finalist in philosophy for the PROSE Awards
Watch Lee talk about Post-Truth and science denial with Michel Martin on Amanpour and Company on PBS/CNN International:
Lee appeared on BIG PICTURE SCIENCE (sponsored by the SETI Institute) with Seth Shostak to talk about how to engage with science deniers and pseudoscientists.
Read Lee’s article in Salon on “Five Ways Trump and His Supporters are Using the Same Strategies as Science Deniers”
Lee appeared on THE AGENDA with Steve Paikin to talk about defending science:
Lee talks about The Philosophy of Climate Denial on “Trump on Earth” (NPR Pittsburgh)
Lee was interviewed by The New Humanist
The Scientific Attitude was reviewed in The Guardian
The Scientific Attitude was reviewed in Publishers Weekly
Post-Truth was named to Forbes Magazine “A College Reading List for the Post-Truth Era”
Lee was interviewed by The Freethink Tank
Lee appeared on Science Salon with Michael Shermer
Lee spoke at the Cambridge Forum, which was televised on WGBH Forum Network:
Lee appeared on the podcast Thinking Clearly
Lee published an essay “Defending Science Through Its Values” with Inside Higher Education
Lee wrote “The Mueller Hearing and the Death of Facts,” from The Conversation
Lee’s article on Flat Earth and the Rise of Science Denial in America was reprinted as the cover story in the print edition of Newsweek! (June 14, 2019)
Lee’s article on Flat Earth and the Rise of Science Denial in America was reprinted as the
cover story in the print edition of Newsweek! (June 14, 2019)
“The Earth is Round…. But the Flat Earth movement is growing, and its tactics are spreading. It’s time we learned how to talk to science deniers.” (Read more)
Lee spoke on “Defending Science from Denial and Fraud” at the Seattle Town hall. Click here for TV, here for radio and here for the podcast.
See Lee discuss his newest book on Science for the Public
Lee discusses The Scientific Attitude on The Robert Wright Show. Click here for TV and here for the podcast.
Hear Lee talk about Defending Science on WBUR’s RADIO BOSTON
(Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Lee appeared on his hometown (Portland, Oregon) TV station to talk about his new book
Read Lee’s article in Salon on Robert Mueller and the Post-Truth Era
Lee was interviewed on public radio in Seattle, The Record with Bill Radke, “How to Talk to a Flat Earther”
Watch Lee talk about his books on Novel Ideas:
Hear Lee on this WBUR podcast about vaccine denial
Lee was interviewed by the legendary Philip Adams on Australian Public Radio, “Defending science from denial, fraud and pseudoscience” with Philip Adams
Hear Lee on drive time radio in Los Angeles: Background Briefing with Ian Masters (scroll down), KPFK Radio
Lee was interviewed on Oregon public radio: How to Win an Argument with a Science Doubter, The Jefferson Exchange
Lee did a book signing at East End Books in Provincetown, MA
See Lee’s op-ed “How to Reverse the Assault on Science” in Scientific American
Read an excerpt from The Scientific Attitude entitled “How Do We Reverse the Tide of an Anti-Science America?” that appeared in Lithub
Lee appeared on The Young Turks to talk about “Defending Science in the Post-Truth Era”:
Lee appeared on Grok’s Science
Lee talked about science denial on The Richard French Show:
Lee wrote an article in The Boston Globe on “What’s So Special About Science?”
Q&A with Lee about The Scientific Attitude on Inside Higher Ed
Listen to an interview with Lee about The Scientific Attitude on The Tom Sumner Program
Hear Lee talk about The Scientific Attitude on Ideasphere, PRX Radio
Lee interviewed about The Scientific Attitude on Give and Take (podcast)
Lee talks about The Scientific Attitude on The Peter Tilden Show, KABC Radio
Watch Lee’s interview about The Scientific Attitude on The David Pakman Show:
Lee was interviewed about The Scientific Attitude on FutureProof (Irish Newstalk radio)
Lee was on Swedish public radio
Hear Lee talk about “why everyone should think like a scientist” on the Octavian Report
Lee did a segment called “One philosopher’s quest to take philosophy back to the streets” on “Tapestry with Mary Hynes” on CBC Radio
Lee did a segment called “Ask a Philosopher” on “All Of It” with Alison Stewart on WNYC:
Lee spoke on a panel that addressed the question “Did Truth Ever Matter” at the Getty Center in Los Angeles:
Post-Truth was named one of “6 books to help you understand the world” in The Week
Lee was featured in an article on “Fake News and Truth” in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper (Japan)
Lee was inteviewed on “Top of Mind with Julie Rose” about his time at the “Ask a Philosopher” booth in New York City
Lee’s article “Could a Booster Shot of Truth Help Scientists Fight the Anti-Vaccine Crisis?” appeared in The Conversation
Post-Truth was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2018
Post-Truth was named a “Best Book of 2018” on the PBS News Hour:
Lee’s op-ed on his time at the “Ask A Philosopher” booth was published in The Conversation
Lee was featured in an article in Wired Italia
Lee was interviewed on New England Authors
Lee was interviewed in Get Lit Beacon
Lee has a new article in Newsweek
Lee has a new book—THE SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE—coming out with MIT Press in April 2019
Hear Lee talk about “fake news” on The Greg and Dan Show:
Hear Lee’s interview with Nebraska NPR
Note: Fast-forward to 8:55 for Lee’s interview
Hear Lee’s interview with “America’s Best-Selling Authors” at The LawBusiness Insider
Lee discusses Post-Truth with The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Post-Truth was just reviewed in the Washington Post
Post-Truth was just reviewed in the New York Review of Books
Lee discusses Post-Truth on Sunday Edition (CBC/Radio Canada):
Post-Truth was named a CNN book-of-the-week by Fareed Zakaria
Hear Lee talk about Post-Truth on the Brian Lehrer Show (NPR)
Hear Lee talk about Post-Truth on the Colin McEnroe Show (NPR)
Read Lee’s article “Why Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin lie… and why they are so good at it” in New Statesman
Read Lee’s article “The Price of Denialism” in The New York Times
Watch Lee speak at the the Harvard Humanist Club on “Truth in an Era of Fake News”:
Watch Lee speak on “Climate Science in an Age of Misinformation” at the University of Rhode Island:
Respecting Truth has won the 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in Philosophy
Read Lee’s article “The Attack on Truth” in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Read Lee’s article “Making Philosophy Matter—or Else” in The Chronicle of Higher Education (PDF)
Read Lee’s article “The Dark Ages of Social Science” in The Humanist
Dark Ages is now widely available in paperback
Dark Ages has won the Silver Award for Philosophy in the 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards