Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant

expert to learn all about something that makes me curious. On today's episode, I'm joined by Professor Nadia Brazier, where I ask her,

how can we check ourselves with fake news?

Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Van Ness. I'm so excited for this a very important episode.

I'm going to introduce to you our stunning guest Nadia Brazier, who is an assistant professor in psychological sciences at Purdue University.

She recently completed an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. She studies why and how young and older adults fall for fake news and misinformation.

Nadia, thank you so much for coming on today and sharing your expertise, your knowledge, your time.

I literally have chills from your resume and I'm so excited to ask you questions about misinformation.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited.

Also, I'm just going to tell the people before we get going.

You have such pretty wavy hair and I'm trying to do this thing where I don't compliment everyone.

But these waves, you guys, I wish you could see them. Maybe in your head shot on our social, we're going to get your waves equally as popping because

just we're slow clapping for the waves. They're that good. And then I'm going to dive in. I'm in Mexico with my husband, random.

We're there. We're on a little vacation. I turn on the TV and it's randomly tuned to Fox News. Like I don't know who was watching it in that hotel room before us, but it was there.

They had this political pendant who is a black man talking about how critical race theory is totally made up its incorrect and should not be taught in our schools within five minutes.

I was like, yeah. And then I was like, no, no, get it off. I'm getting brainwashed.

And I mean, I, you know, I listened to the 1619 project. I'm a very firm believer in the importance of critical race theory. I understand that it's not teaching racism to children.

I understand that it's showing the lingering effects that segregation and the transatlantic slave trade, how it's impacted our culture and our society and how it's permeated, you know, financial educational health care.

It's been pervasive across our culture. But within five minutes of Fox News, like which, you know, I never really exposed myself to. I was like, so this is where I realized that

there was like a huge issue that I think I've been kind of like ostriching my head in this end because I come from a very highly conservative city.

Oftentimes people ask me about queer. I like, oh, what's it like for you being around people who are clearly like on the opposite political spectrum?

Is you and I'm like, well, that's a lot of family members. It's a lot of people I come up from. I, you know, grip on cornfields and soybean fields and hog farms.

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