The Cognitive Immunology Research Collaborative (CIRCE)

CIRCE is an institute dedicated to developing humanity's immunity to the ideas and ideologies that consistently frustrate human aspirations. Through the deliberate application of scientific findings on the mind's immune system, CIRCE seeks to prevent epidemics of unreason.

CIRCE emerged as researchers and scholars, galvanized by Andy Norman's book Mental Immunity, began to pull together around the science of cognitive immunology. Within months of the book's release, scholars from all over the world-America, Australia, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium-rallied to Andy's vision. Since CIRCE's formation, psychologists and philosophers, cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists, behavioral economists and information epidemiologists have begun working together to deepen our understanding of mental immunity. CIRCE strives to apply the resulting understanding to our most persistent and pernicious social problems.