Philipp Schmid
@philippschmid.bsky.social
Research about #misinformation #healthcommunication Asst. Prof. @Radboud_Uni
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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...
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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...
My 40 min Interview with German Media @correctiv.org on #sciencedenialism m.youtube.com/watch?v=A3os...
Warum Menschen Wissenschaft leugnen – Interview mit Dr. Philipp Schmid
YouTube video by CORRECTIV
m.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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...
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...
online.ucpress.edu
September 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Our registered report on the impact of using norms as a lever against vaccination misinformation @collabrapsychology.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
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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🧵
For some more details, here’s a🧵
September 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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🧵
For some more details, here’s a🧵
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...
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...
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...
doi.org
July 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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...
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 👇🏽
🚨 Fresh off the press 🚨 Our #TISP spin-off paper on the relationship between #ConspiracyBeliefs and individual #victimhood is now out! doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
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Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood
Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the indi....
doi.org
July 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
#conspiracy It was great to be part of this work. Check it out 👇🏽
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.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Not unexpected... but still interesting to watch what happens if someone "overplays his hand"....
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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
www.theguardian.com
May 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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...
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
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.
www.clientearth.org
April 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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...
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
… because women are not in the public’s interest…🙄insane…
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
… because women are not in the public’s interest…🙄insane…
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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 ...
www.nature.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What a week…good to see EU courts doing their Job!
#BREAKING Court bans French far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running for office after conviction
March 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
What a week…good to see EU courts doing their Job!
„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...
This thing will fail
Trump will not restore the "strong gods" of community, family, and faith.
www.noahpinion.blog
March 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
„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...
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...
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.
www.nature.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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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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."
"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."
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.
www.statnews.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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."
"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."
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/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Bird flu detected in sheep in England for the first time
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.
news.sky.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Bird flu detected in sheep in England for the first time
Reposted by Philipp Schmid
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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I haven't seen any parallel thinking among the US Atlanticist community about what it means for the US.
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March 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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) 🧵
I haven't seen any parallel thinking among the US Atlanticist community about what it means for the US.
(Brief) 🧵
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Don't miss this thoughtful and courageous piece by @holdenthorp.bsky.social. Here's a gift copy: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/o...
Opinion | Sorry, R.F.K.: There Is No Autism Mystery (Gift Article)
Greater awareness, not vaccines, has driven an increase in diagnoses.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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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...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
‘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
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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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...
Silenced Science Stories
Featuring the faces and stories of federal scientists.
silencedsciencestories.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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...
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...
www.tagesschau.de
March 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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...
www.rki.de/DE/Aktuelles...
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/gesun...
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DEI is under attack, but the stakes are higher than many realize. Universities *must stand firm* in defending it. I lay out why in my latest piece for Nature.
Silence is complicity. Without DEI, we fail our students, our research, and our future.
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Silence is complicity. Without DEI, we fail our students, our research, and our future.
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown
Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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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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#HealthForAll
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#HealthForAll
March 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
For over 75 years, WHO has been at the heart of global health, saving lives and building a healthier world:
🔗 bit.ly/4i4FD0i
#HealthForAll
🔗 bit.ly/4i4FD0i
#HealthForAll