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The Mental Immunity Project

CIRCE has convened a panel of experts and given them an audacious charge: work out how to protect minds from the worst forms of cognitive contagion.


Our blue-ribbon panel is hard at work on a powerful set of tools for inoculating willing minds. Stay tuned!

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View the Blue Ribbon Panel's Declaration

Conceptual Foundations

Researchers have made a startling discovery: the mind has an immune system all its own. This system combats infectious information the same way the body combats infectious microbes—by manufacturing antibodies. We experience those mental antibodies as questions and doubts. This discovery could not come at a better time—we need to fortify mental immune systems against the infectious nonsense that even now circulates freely on the web. The findings of cognitive immunology light the path to a world where manipulative messaging no longer divides peaceful societies against themselves.

The Work

CIRCE has assembled a panel of the world’s leading experts in information epidemiology, cognitive immunology, and the science of mind-inoculation. This team is working to produce a useful guide to mental immune health, focusing on simple, actionable strategies for disrupting the transmission of bad information. Once completed, CIRCE will promote the release of the guide to create broad awareness of these powerful new tools.

The Goal

  •  A reduction in dysfunctional partisanship.  
  • The empowerment of educators, organizational heads, community leaders, and individuals to build mental immunity in themselves and others.  
  • The establishment of new critical thinking and idea-testing norms aimed at curbing the spread of misinformation. 

Our Panelists

Stephan Lewandowsky

Sander van der Linden

Sander van der Linden

Chair of Cognitive Psychology at the School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol 

Sander van der Linden

Sander van der Linden

Sander van der Linden

Professor Social Psychology at Cambridge University

Melanie Trecek-King

Sander van der Linden

Melanie Trecek-King

Founder of Thinking Is Power, Associate Professor of Biology at Massasoit Community College

Lee McIntyre

David Sloan Wilson

Melanie Trecek-King

Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University

Andy Norman

David Sloan Wilson

David Sloan Wilson

Author of Mental Immunity; Executive Director of CIRCE

David Sloan Wilson

David Sloan Wilson

David Sloan Wilson

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University;  Co-founder of the Evolution Institute and Prosocial World

John Cook

Maarten Boudry

Claire Wardle

Leading mind-inoculation researcher at Monash University

Claire Wardle

Maarten Boudry

Claire Wardle

Lecturer, Annenberg Undergraduate Program, University of Pennsylvania; Visiting Scholar, Center for Media at Risk; Co-Founder and Director, First Draft News

Maarten Boudry

Maarten Boudry

Anthony Magnabosco

Philosopher of Science at Ghent University

Anthony Magnabosco

Steven Gilbert, PhD

Anthony Magnabosco

Executive Director of Street Epistemology International

Karin Tamerius, MD

Steven Gilbert, PhD

Steven Gilbert, PhD

Founder of Smart Politics

Steven Gilbert, PhD

Steven Gilbert, PhD

Steven Gilbert, PhD

Professor Emeritus at Minnesota State University Mankato

Steije Hofhuis

Harris A. Eyre, MD, PhD

Harris A. Eyre, MD, PhD

Lecturer in Cultural History, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Harris A. Eyre, MD, PhD

Harris A. Eyre, MD, PhD

Harris A. Eyre, MD, PhD

Lead of the Brain Capital Alliance and co-lead of the OECD-Prodeo Institute's neuroscience-inspired policy initiative.

Support the Mental Immunity Project

Your financial support will help us:


  • Support our panelists as they research and write about the principles of mental immunity 
  • Generate easy-to-use tools for combatting cognitive contagion
  • Raise awareness of best practices for avoiding "mind-infections."


CIRCE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Donations are tax-deductible. Enter mailing address at checkout to receive a letter acknowledging your donation.


The official registration and financial information of the Cognitive Immunology Research Collaborative may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free, within Pennsylvania, 1 (800) 732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement. 

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