Fake news and neurobabble: how do we critically assess what we read?

With unprecedented access to news and knowledge, how do we make judgements about what we read? Neuroscience news is a case in point

In an era of fake news and alternative facts, it seems as if our collective ability to critically assess information is starting to falter. We have unprecedented access to news and knowledge on a daily basis, but how do we make judgments about whether to accept what we read? There's still a lot of work to do in this area, but an influential psychology experiment from 2009 might provide a good starting point - at least when it comes to thinking about how neuroscience is presented in the news.