Read Bobby Azarian’s – a Cognitive Neuroscientist at George Mason University –
December 2016 article on fake news and the library-based, scientific super skills (superpowers? 😀 ) you can bring to bear to spot it here.

“In this new age of social media, our news is no longer being filtered through major media outlets that have teams of meticulous and principled fact checkers. As a result, empiricism is more important than ever. We all must be trained to navigate through the false information, and we can do that by thinking like scientists.”