About Infodemic Solutions

Andy Norman is the award-winning author of Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think. He studies how healthy minds spot and remove bad ideas and devises ways to prevent cognitive contagion. His work has been featured in Scientific American, Skeptic, and Psychology Today. He has been a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience, NPR, and the BBC’s Naked Scientist.

Melanie Trecek-King is the creator of Thinking Is Power, an online critical thinking resource. She is an Associate Professor of Biology at Massasoit Community College, where she teaches a general-education science course designed to teach critical thinking, information literacy, and science literacy.  As a speaker and consultant, she promotes her "teach skills, not facts" approach to fellow science educators, and assists organizations in achieving their goals through better thinking.

Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an Instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He is the author of How to Talk to a Science Denier (MIT Press, 2021),  The Scientific Attitude (MIT Press, 2019), Post-Truth (MIT Press, 2018), Respecting Truth (Routledge, 2015), and Dark Ages (MIT Press, 2006).