Inoculating against anti-vax messaging through empathy Vaccine hesitancy can be overcome through personalised, empathetic conversational approaches.,,,European Commission

Nice writeup of our now-finished JITSUVAX project: cordis.europa.eu/art... The main output of the project is the empathetic refutational interview...
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Cool stuff!

It's out!!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.

Die rechtsextreme AfD wollte die Enquetekommission Corona zum Tribunal gegen Christian Drosten machen. Doch der Virologe wusste sich zu wehren. Außer jeder Menge Fake News und wirren Anschuldigungen kam nichts.

Debunking Health Misinformation with Empathy Debunking is an effective means to mitigate the impact of health misinformation. However, even after receiving a corrective message, misinformation of…

When correcting health misinformation 💉 💊 , it is a truism that one should do that in an empathetic way 🫶. But why should that help? What are the psychological mechanisms? Do we have evidence for its' effectiveness? What are potential backfire effects 🙈? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Warum Menschen Wissenschaft leugnen – Interview mit Dr. Philipp Schmid YouTube video by CORRECTIV

My 40 min Interview with German Media @correctiv.org on #sciencedenialism m.youtube.com/watch?v=A3os...

Our registered report on the impact of using norms as a lever against vaccination misinformation @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

This morning at #FGSP2025 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de we had a symposium on current views on motivated reasoning with talks from @marlephie.bsky.social @kwinter.bsky.social @philippschmid.bsky.social and Arne Stolp (from @tobiasrothmund.bsky.social‘s lab) and myself.

For some more details, here’s a🧵

Nice work Tianshuang!

Impact of Exposure to Health Misinformation on Belief in Health Misinformation: A Meta-Analysis of RCTs Health authorities have labeled health misinformation a major global health threat and academic scholars consider exposure to health misinformation a barrier to an individual’s informed decision-ma...

New paper on impact of #healthmisinformation with the amazing
Hannah Bauer This meta-analysis aims to help fact-checkers identify dangerous misinfo and to help researchers plan studies on health misinformation. doi.org/10.1080/1041...

#conspiracy It was great to be part of this work. Check it out 👇🏽

China to donate $500 million to WHO, stepping into gap left by U.S. Beijing will replace the United States as the organization’s top state donor, expanding its influence as the U.S. retreats from international cooperation.

Not unexpected... but still interesting to watch what happens if someone "overplays his hand"....

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

US to begin immediate removal of up to 1,000 trans military members Pentagon will give other trans service members 30 days to self-identify while it enforces recently approved ban

This just makes me sick… with stories like this basically every history schoolbook in Germany starts to explain fascism…

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

MEDIA REACTION: World-first law banning fossil fuel ads survives Dutch legal challenge | ClientEarth A Dutch city has successfully defended its landmark law to ban fossil fuel advertising –setting a precedent for cities across Europe in the process.

Go 🇳🇱!! 👍🏻 “The Dutch city of The Hague has successfully defended its landmark law, which bans fossil fuel advertising, in court.”

www.clientearth.org/latest/press...

NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

… because women are not in the public’s interest…🙄insane…
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Women shaping behavioural science - Nature Human Behaviour In the month of International Women’s Day, we asked six scientists about the most influential woman who shaped their field. They highlight well-known names and rising stars. Some of them have studied ...

In the month of International Women’s Day, we asked six scientists about the most influential woman who shaped their field. @histoftech.bsky.social @samaraklar.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What a week…good to see EU courts doing their Job!

This thing will fail Trump will not restore the "strong gods" of community, family, and faith.

„Smashing the old order does not, in itself, create anything at all. The Visigoths and the Vandals built nothing on top of the ruins of Rome. They indulged their thumos and scampered away to feast for a while on the wealth they looted, and then they disappeared..“ www.noahpinion.blog/p/this-thing...

Beware: transparency rule is a Trojan Horse Like tobacco lobbyists and climate-change deniers, the US Environmental Protection Agency is co-opting scientific trappings to sow doubt, warns Naomi Oreskes.

Naomi Oreskes wrote about this 7 years ago and the Trump administration is doing exactly that: Using replications and open science as a trojan horse. Doubt is their product. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The NIH canceled my research on vaccine hesitancy The decision to end research on vaccine hesitancy is deeply disrespectful of those who have lost or will lose loved ones to vaccine-preventable disease.

The NIH canceled my research on vaccine hesitancy www.statnews.com/2025/03/28/v... via @statnews

"Each year in the United States, approximately 6,000 people die from influenza.

More than 7,000 will die from Covid-19 in 2025.

...an American child died from measles for the first time in a decade."

Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.

So will we need a new category in risk of bias assessments when doing systematic reviews? Study conducted by US after 2025 yes/no?

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Bird flu detected in sheep in England for the first time Bird flu has been detected in a sheep in England for the first time, the government has said.

Bird flu detected in sheep in England for the first time

We're seeing a lot of very rapid geopolitical and geo-economic thinking going on right now in Europe about what the end of the US alliance means for its security, economy & diplomacy.

I haven't seen any parallel thinking among the US Atlanticist community about what it means for the US.

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‘A computer’s joke, on us’: writers respond to the short story written by AI Sam Altman, the OpenAI boss, has declared its new model ‘good at creative writing’. We asked writers including Tracy Chevalier, Kamila Shamsie and David Baddiel if they agree

Nice comments! „makes it feel like a consciousness with which we can have a relationship, but as far as I know that would be like a bird falling in love with its reflection in a window. What’s behind the glass is an empty room with no bird.“ Nick Harkaway

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Bluesky finally found in Belgium Any Digital Services Act questions will go to the Belgian telecom regulator as Bluesky established its legal headquarters in the country.

Welcome to Europe, 🦋

May you soon be a designated VLOP! #DSA

www.euronews.com/next/2025/03...

Silenced Science Stories Featuring the faces and stories of federal scientists.

Nice Initiative!: „a group of volunteer science communicators and artists dedicated to amplifying the voices of scientists affected by budget cuts and grant terminations. Our portraits highlight their contributions and the importance of their work.“ silencedsciencestories.com?trk=feed_mai...

Experten bewerten Masern-Impfpflicht positiv Fünf Jahre ist es her, dass in Deutschland eine Impfpflicht gegen Masern eingeführt wurde. Nun haben Experten Bilanz gezogen: Zwar wurden mehr Kinder immunisiert als zuvor - bei der Umsetzung gab es j...

Experience with measles vaccine mandates in Germany. There is a lot to address in the future but overall positiv reports from involved parties.

www.rki.de/DE/Aktuelles...

www.tagesschau.de/wissen/gesun...

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For over 75 years, WHO has been at the heart of global health, saving lives and building a healthier world:

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