Developing Your Neurobulls#!t Detector: Critical Thinking in Neuroscience Hype

From “MIT proves ChatGPT makes you dumb” to miracle brain implants, neuroscience headlines are everywhere — but how do you know what’s real? To help us not only answer those questions but learn how to answer them, we invited Ashley, a neuroscientist and professor at UC San Diego, to help improve our “neurobullshit detectors.” Using real examples from Neuralink hype to mouse studies and misleading brain scans she shows how to separate headline from substance.