Philipp Schmid
@philippschmid.bsky.social
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Research about
#misinformation
#healthcommunication
Asst. Prof. @Radboud_Uni 🇳🇱
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My 40 min Interview with German Media
@correctiv.org
on
#sciencedenialism
m.youtube.com/watch?v=A3os...
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Warum Menschen Wissenschaft leugnen – Interview mit Dr. Philipp Schmid
YouTube video by CORRECTIV
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A3os9lk3ljU
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Lisa Oswald
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It's out!!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Big thank you to my coauthors
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@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.
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Der Volksverpetzer
about 1 month ago
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.
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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...
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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…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X2500226X?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content
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My 40 min Interview with German Media
@correctiv.org
on
#sciencedenialism
m.youtube.com/watch?v=A3os...
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Warum Menschen Wissenschaft leugnen – Interview mit Dr. Philipp Schmid
YouTube video by CORRECTIV
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A3os9lk3ljU
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Our registered report on the impact of using norms as a lever against vaccination misinformation
@collabrapsychology.bsky.social
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Expert Consensus Messaging as a Lever Against Vaccination Misinformation
The spread of misinformation about vaccines can slow down collective efforts to respond to life-threatening diseases, and thus severely damage public health. Strategies for counteracting misinformatio...
https://online.ucpress.edu/collabra/article/11/1/143778/213503/Expert-Consensus-Messaging-as-a-Lever-Against
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Fabian Hutmacher
4 months ago
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
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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...
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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...
https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2025.2536772
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#conspiracy
It was great to be part of this work. Check it out 👇🏽
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Not unexpected... but still interesting to watch what happens if someone "overplays his hand"....
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/21/china-who-donation-500-million/
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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...
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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
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/08/trump-pentagon-trans-military-ban?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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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...
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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.
https://www.clientearth.org/latest/press-office/world-first-law-banning-fossil-fuel-ads-survives-dutch-legal-challenge/?trk=feed_main-feed-card-text
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… because women are not in the public’s interest…🙄insane…
www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-cancels-its-first-and-largest-study-centered-women?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR5Gx_wmGMe1IF412UeRbGafAyZKOXI3oMBw_-TkiuX8a9BL_FTBIq-czllqhA_aem_d6M-gxNdko9tomVot2yaNA
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Nature Human Behaviour
10 months ago
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...
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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 ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02161-1
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What a week…good to see EU courts doing their Job!
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10 months ago
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„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...
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This thing will fail
Trump will not restore the "strong gods" of community, family, and faith.
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/this-thing-will-fail?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content
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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...
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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.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05207-9?error=cookies_not_supported&code=2a141b70-fae7-420a-a05d-5cbbc109174d&trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content
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Timothy Caulfield
10 months ago
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."
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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.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/28/vaccine-hestitancy-research-nih-canceled-mental-illness/
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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/...
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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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/25/vaccine-skeptic-hhs-rfk-immunization-autism/
10 months ago
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Sky News
10 months ago
Bird flu detected in sheep in England for the first time
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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.
https://news.sky.com/story/bluesky-13334862
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Judah Grunstein
10 months ago
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. (Brief) 🧵
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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...
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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
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/14/writers-respond-story-written-by-ai-sam-altman-chat-gpt-tracy-chevalier-kamila-shamsie-david-baddiel
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Claes de Vreese
10 months ago
Welcome to Europe, 🦋 May you soon be a designated VLOP!
#DSA
www.euronews.com/next/2025/03...
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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.
https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/03/13/bluesky-finally-found-in-belgium
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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...
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Silenced Science Stories
Featuring the faces and stories of federal scientists.
https://silencedsciencestories.com/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_reshare_feed-article-content
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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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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...
https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/gesundheit/bilanz-impfpflicht-masern-100.html
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WHO
11 months ago
For over 75 years, WHO has been at the heart of global health, saving lives and building a healthier world: 🔗
bit.ly/4i4FD0i
#HealthForAll
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Happy to join the Editorial Board of
@commspsychol.bsky.social
Interesting health/misinfo/science denialism research going on? You might wanna consider CP.
www.nature.com/commspsychol/
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Communications Psychology
Communications Psychology is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary across all of the ...
https://www.nature.com/commspsychol/
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Communications Psychology
11 months ago
Virtual contact between U.S. non-Muslim and Muslim students from MENA and SE Asia regions demonstrates that online interactions can effectively reduce prejudice and dehumanization.
@shirahebelsela.bsky.social
@boazhameiri.bsky.social
@eranhalperin75.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Virtual contact improves intergroup relations between non-Muslim American and Muslim students from the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia in a field quasi-experiment - Communications Psychol...
Virtual contact between U.S. non-Muslim and Muslim students from MENA and SE Asia regions demonstrates that online interactions can effectively reduce prejudice and dehumanization, offering a scalable...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00218-5
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So much potential knowledge flushed down the toilette..
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science
Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats
https://www.science.org/content/article/pentagon-guts-national-security-program-harnessed-social-science?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content
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#sciencedenialism
If denialism kills your own voters...you start to realise something truly amazing: VACCINES WORK! Fox News Opinion Piece: MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease
www.foxnews.com/opinion/robe...
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ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR.: Measles outbreak is call to action for all of us
MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/robert-f-kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-call-action-all-us.amp
11 months ago
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I knew I had seen the Trump Zelensky scene before... Well basically every US movie starts with some rich ignorant dude humiliating the hero...
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Stephan Lewandowsky
11 months ago
"Man without suit encountered suit without man."
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If you want to control it then you need to isolate it…
www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-wh...
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CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-who-publication-memo_n_67c1eb34e4b0bf54864084cf/amp
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Kaja Kallas
11 months ago
Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.
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Dr Emma Anderson
11 months ago
Excellent vaccine attitudes article flagging dismissive health encounters as trigger to turn to misinformation! The JITSUVAX project and training is all about tackling this - great we are cited in the piece.
jitsuvax.com
jitsuvax.info
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www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
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Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’
Researchers believe personal stories are more persuasive than facts alone in addressing vaccine skepticism
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/feb/27/how-anti-vax-parents-changed-their-minds?CMP=share_btn_url
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“The problem was not what our enemies did, but what our friends did.” 1933 Hannah Arendt. It is the silence... the hiding away from conflict that does the damage. 🇺🇦🇪🇺 Russia could not break Ukraine... but its "friends" might...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdCV...
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Hannah Arendt über das Jahr 1933: "Das Problem war, was unsere Freunde taten!"
YouTube video by ArendtKanal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdCVs376q0U
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@briannosek.bsky.social
just posted this on LinkedIn. Do not save and share your work exlusively in journals or on gov. Platforms. OSF can help and many other initiatives from the community for the community. Knowledge will find its way and we can help.
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Özden Terli
11 months ago
Während die
#Klimakatastrophe
derzeit keine Rolle spielt, dreht sich die Spirale in der Natur weiter.
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"The monological belief system model suggests that developing a belief in one conspiracy theory will cause them to be more likely to believe in others." Evidence for this was usually based on single surveys. Nice to see a more convincing test of that idea.
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Does Developing a Belief in One Conspiracy Theory Lead a Person to be More Likely to Believe in Others?
The monological belief system model suggests that—for at least a subset of people—developing a belief in one conspiracy theory will cause them to be more likely to believe in others. This model has b...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejsp.3153?campaign=wolearlyview
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Christian Drosten
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Science is for everyone.
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Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship
This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenHphuS0QIp1NPpyFNMJo4dd591UEOjHHyIGzNrVco90eYwQ/viewform
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#Mansplaining
: “to explain something to a woman in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner, typically to a woman already knowledgeable about the topic”
#Vanceplaining
: mansplaining states already knowledgeable about the topic
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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JD Vance stuns Munich conference with blistering attack on Europe’s leaders
US vice-president questions whether European values are worth defending as he rails against ‘threat from within’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/jd-vance-stuns-munich-conference-with-blistering-attack-on-europes-leaders
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Alarming read. No business as usual: “I am publishing this piece anonymously. The very fact that I am having to publish this anonymously in a country that has the right to free speech written into our Constitution is an indictment of what is happening.”
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Responding to fear and magical thinking in the US
“I am a researcher within the federal system, and I hope that you will forgive me and understand why I am publishing this piece anonymously. The very fact that I am having to publish this anonymously ...
https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r311?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content
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"Donald Trump's actions are a sweeping and damaging attack on the health of the American people and those dependent on US foreign assistance." We need community, resistance and cooperation now more than ever. I know people are tired but public health needs you.
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American chaos: standing up for health and medicine
Withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Agreements. USAID shuttered and aid halted, ceasing health programmes globally. A freeze on US$3 trillion worth of federal grants and loans, jeopardising the function...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00237-5/fulltext?dgcid=twitter_organic_eds25_lancet&utm_campaign=5338900-eds25&utm_content=324147500&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-1155238
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Diseases don't care about sovereignty...I thought we have learned that lesson often enough...but no: “We Argentinians will not allow an international organization to intervene in our sovereignty, much less in our health,”
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/05/a...
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Argentina says it will pull out of World Health Organization | CNN
Argentina has announced it will pull out of the World Health Organization (WHO), mirroring a similar move by US President Donald Trump last month.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/05/americas/argentina-says-leaving-who-intl/index.html
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I think I usually have at least 80% of these terms in my work… wearing that fact like a badge of honor! Already thinking about a paper title that has them all
#catchthemall
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Health misinformation is way less of a problem if accurate information is easily accessible. Absence of info is a public health problem. Really worrying to see this
healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/01...
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Download time: What journalists should know about disappearing federal health data
Following a Jan. 29 memo, staff at the CDC are removing any content related to “gender ideology,” with a deadline of Friday afternoon.
https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/01/download-time-what-journalists-should-know-about-disappearing-federal-health-data/
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Very good thread on microtargeting!
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