Joseph Isaac

Educator and science communicator. Isaac has produced educational videos for TED-Ed covering misinformation psychology, misconceptions, and the mechanisms by which false beliefs spread and persist despite contradictory evidence.

Sources in this wiki

• Why People Fall for Misinformation

Topics

• misinformation-psychology, psychology-of-belief, misinformation-susceptibility

Notes

Isaac's TED-Ed work emphasizes narrative simplicity and historical patterns in how misconceptions arise—distinguishing unintentional misinformation from deliberate disinformation—with a focus on psychological mechanisms rather than technical detection methods.