{"id":15423,"date":"2025-03-10T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=15423"},"modified":"2025-03-19T01:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T01:15:17","slug":"2025-03-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-03-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversational Strategies to Avoid Being Fooled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2444\" height=\"3278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/humanists.org_2025_03_16_dougherty_converse_IMG_1233.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15425\"\/><figcaption>Carolyn Dougherty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>11 a.m., March 16, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we welcome a guest speaker from the Central Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Disinformation is a huge problem in our society. What can we do to help friends who fall for it? We will discuss why using conversational strategies, based on research, may be more effective than debunking alone to help our friends &#8211; and ourselves &#8211; from being fooled.<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn Dougherty is a retired teacher. She is a volunteer and instructor at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at University of the Pacific, a member of the planning committee for the SkeptiCal Conference, and the founder and facilitator of Rational Roundtable, a group that promotes science and critical thinking in the Central Valley of California.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1066611143?h=2d01e30109\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1066611143\">03\/16\/2025 Conversational Strategies to Avoid Being Fooled &#8211; Carolyn Dougherty<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Attend in Person:<br>On the first and third Sunday of the month, such as March 2nd, you can attend our forum in person with fellow humanists at the <b>Mountain View Senior Center<\/b>, 266 Escuela Ave., Mountain View, CA 94040. 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Disinformation is a huge problem in our society. What can we do to help friends who fall for it? We will discuss why using conversational strategies, based on research, may be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2025-03-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conversational Strategies to Avoid Being Fooled&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15423"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15448,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15423\/revisions\/15448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}