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Author, Potter, Expertise in Risk Perception Psychology
near Boston
Joined January 2009
THIS JUST IN! The news media do not report on the causes of death in proportion to what actually kills us!
ourworldindata.org
What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on?
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“Incomplete risk reporting causes harm because it doesn’t give people the information they need to make the healthiest choice for them and their circumstances," says former science journalist @dropeik, author of 3 books on evaluating health/safety risks. https://t.co/Vxp3zZwN7i
journalistsresource.org
Include these four details, sometimes missing from news coverage, to help audiences understand risks to their health and safety.
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This is the way risk SHOULD be reported. The 'Boogeyman' in Our Food: Fears vs. Facts About Lead https://t.co/9w3bX5r7fa from @WebMD;
webmd.com
High blood levels of lead can be harmful, and recent headlines suggest the heavy metal has gotten ingo our food supply. Knowledge is your best defense – here's what the science and the experts say.
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Dear Right Wing extremists (that's you, White House) Understandable you're upset by left-wing violence, but (from the Economist)
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Profound insight, and a challenge to The 1619 Project thinking. Class division, even more than race, is tearing us apart, around the world.
nytimes.com
To be one nation, we have to embrace ground-up social change.
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Sen. Bill Cassidy OK'g JFK Jr as HHS Sec said "I practiced medicine for 30 years, After seeing patients die from vaccine preventable diseases, Personally witnessing the safety monitoring, and the effectiveness of immunization, vaccines save lives." The deaths to come are on him
HHS investment helped speed the development of vaccines that saved millions of lives from Covid. This is not an opinion. Plenty of research has demonstrated it. RFKJr is acting against established science and procedure.
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Sen. Bill Cassidy OK'g JFK Jr as HHS Sec said "I practiced medicine for 30 years, After seeing patients die from vaccine preventable diseases, Personally witnessing the safety monitoring, and the effectiveness of immunization, vaccines save lives." The deaths to come are on him
Thanks to RFKJr., US officially turns its back on one of the most exciting biomedical technologies to emerge this century, a gift to European and Asian competitors and one that is likely to hit US health costs and maybe US lives.
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Sen. Bill Cassidy OK'g JFK Jr as HHS Sec said "I practiced medicine for 30 years, After seeing patients die from vaccine preventable diseases, Personally witnessing the safety monitoring, and the effectiveness of immunization, vaccines save lives." The deaths to come are on him
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced in a statement Tuesday that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects - all using mRNA technology - will be halted.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced in a statement Tuesday that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects - all using mRNA technology - will be halted.
apnews.com
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
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Sen. Bill Cassidy OK'g JFK Jr as HHS Sec said "I practiced medicine for 30 years, After seeing patients die from vaccine preventable diseases, Personally witnessing the safety monitoring, and the effectiveness of immunization, vaccines save lives." The deaths to come are on him
The antivax insanity is awful, but shutting down mRNA research will also stall advances toward mRNA pesticides and fungicides that can replace nasty agri-chemicals.
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Simply noting that people are tribal isn't enough. We must realize that being true to your tribe is biologically tied to our survival instinct. Any challenge to your tribe sets off a Fight or Flight or Freeze response. It's WAY more powerful than reason https://t.co/Ix0iXjHFeT
psychologytoday.com
Many have noted that we are getting more tribal. But few have recognized how our instinctive need for belonging to a tribe stems from the most basic instinct of all: survival.
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Seldom do I feel a book I read, even a great book, changes me. But WHAT ART DOES has. What Art Does - by Brian Eno and Bette A. - independent book review - Non-fiction https://t.co/PwAQ4yBs5w via @halkidyounger
tobyasmith.com
A TOTAL surprise to me!
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And mammography is only part of a much larger, hidden, uncomfortable problem we must recognize; Cancerphobia, the SOMETIMES excessive fear of a disease that does great harm all by itself. Please see "Curing Cancerphobia How Risk, Fear, and Worry Mislead Us" - Johns Hopkins Press
In 2001, Cochrane refused to publish the major harms of mammography screening, overdiagnosis and overtreatment, and it took me five years of complaints before these data came out in my Cochrane review. https://t.co/xWopOs16ig.
@SecKennedy, @DrJBhattacharya, @cdcgov, @WHO
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to answer our question; Hate, Matt. Steven Miller/Heritage Foundation grade hate, heavy emphasis on hate of non-whites.
What could possibly be the justification for deporting a Purple Heart recipient who’s been here legally since he was 7 years old. Why would we do this? Why???
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Except, as I just posted, my book on the psychology of risk perception has been boosted by Microsft AI nearly verbatim in some places, with NO quotation marks (slightly changed language) nor citations. How is that NOT theft?
Good. Especially if it quotes accurately and with accurate citations.
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Word now offers AI options. For kicks I asked for an essay on the psychology of risk perception, about which I've written a ton, including a book. INFURIATINGLY, many of the AI passages are only thinly different from my own language in the book. How is this not copyright theft?
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The psychological study of risk perception - the way we keep ourselves safe and alive - finds that a lack of controls is perhaps the most powerful psycho-emotional generator of fear. Looking for "agency" = grasping for a sense of CONTROL when we are afraid, as most Trump fans are
"I see what MAHA is offering. It’s not really about making America healthy. It’s about giving people the illusion of agency in a complicated and scary world."
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Bravo @borenbear Phenomenal environmental reporting on the prospective death toll from Trump's rollback of enviro regs to please the fossil fuel industry
apnews.com
When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would spark a “Golden Age” for the American economy.
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