Jacques Rousseau is a lecturer in critical thinking and business ethics at the University of Cape Town, and is the founder and chairperson of the Free Society Institute, established in 2009 to promote secular humanism and scientific reasoning in South Africa. He and Dr Caleb Lack are the co-authors of Critical Thinking, Science, and Pseudoscience: Why We Can’t Trust Our Brains (Springer Publishing Company, 2016). His essays on politics, science, religion and rationality can be found on Synapses – http://synapses.co.za, and he is active on Twitter as @JacquesR.
