Tianshuang Han

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go

Bill Gates recent remarks on climate change not leading to the "demise" of humanity reminded me of this piece of genius by the late great Tom Lehrer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAE...

Having to go to some chatbot to get misinformation is such a waste of time. That's why we need to put this right in the browser so you can get your misinformation faster.

Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess

Trojan gold: New US “standard” is another veiled attack on science Transparency, reproducibility, and acknowledging uncertainty are meritorious attributes of science that differentiate it from other human endeavors, such as politics. But they can also be subverted. I...

Yep.

New US “standard” is another veiled attack on science science.org/doi/10.1126/... @lewan.bsky.social

Gold standard "is thus best understood as yet another of at least 318 actions against science that the second Trump administration has taken since the president took office in January 2025."

Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America But don’t call that fascism. That would be bad.

That’s the spirit of it
www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

From Willowbrook to the Geiers: Families Speak Out “Once, I went down to the Geiers’ basement to use the bathroom. I saw several ladies packaging drug bottles into boxes. And in the bathroom I saw what appeared to be equipment from a chemistry lab.”

Terrific sleuthing and deep background research by @alex23.bsky.social into the horrors of "research" on autism conducted by none other than the person RFK Jr put in charge of ... you guessed it, the (non-existent) link between autism and vaccines:

Great feature with some thoughts from me;

"The undermining of democratic institutions on display in these groups echoed fascist methods used throughout history..they
are trying to undermine institutions of truth, facts & education because that is what’s standing in their way–an informed citizenry"

You can lead people to data, but you can't make them think Comment from Auckland University: Scientific evidence for human-induced climate change is beyond dispute, so why is disinformation still so rife?

It’s becoming a tragedy that we have to keep repeating this… or maybe a farce…

newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/25/y...

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

Welcome to the World of Obstruction Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out.

Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

The assault on expertise is driven by an agenda to place uniformed, ill-conceived, often politically-motivated antiscience from charlatans on an equal footing with scientific consensus.

Please read #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & me: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...

Photo of a fence with dirt and bushes in in the foreground. Text is overlayed with the words "Regardless of legal status, immigrants to the United States have lower levels of criminogenic risk factors than U.S.-born citizens at similar stages of the criminal legal system".

Policies limiting immigration are often justified based on the idea that immigrants are more prone to violence. The evidence says otherwise.

New research finds that immigrants in custody show lower criminogenic risk than U.S.-born citizens.
 
Read here: doi.org/10.1037/law0...

#psychlaw #lawpsych

Excellent article. Telling it like it is. Kennedy is a menace to US children, adults and the US science advantage he is hosing away.

Picture of a hand holding a phone and dialing 911. Below, text reads "Studies from the FBI and Villanova University find that the Considering Offender Probability Statements (COPS) Scale fails to reliably discriminate between guilty and innocent 911 callers".

Does the Considering Offender Probability in Statements (COPS) Scale allow law enforcement to distinguish between guilty and innocent people placing 911 homicide calls?

Research from the FBI BAU and Villanova University suggests it does not.

Read a summary from the authors: bit.ly/3DgM3dL

‘Animal Farm was my parents’ teamwork’: Orwell’s son on 80 years of the satirical classic Richard Blair on the role his mother played in developing the 1945 political fable – and how it nearly didn’t get published

"It remains an unforgettable inspiration to all those fighting for freedom. In a world where authoritarianism, nationalism, xenophobia and political lying are all on the rise, we need Animal Farm by our side more than ever now."

Animal Farm at 80: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Screenshot of the article "How Convincing Is a Crowd? Quantifying the Persuasiveness of a Consensus for Different Individuals and Types of Claims"

We know that a consensus of opinions is persuasive, but how reliable is this effect across people and types of consensus, and are there any kinds of claims where people care less about what other people think? This is what we tested in our new(ish) paper in @psychscience.bsky.social

How RFK Jr is systematically undermining vaccines around the world Vaccines saved 154 million lives. But as fear of disease fades, so does protection – raising the chilling prospect of a return to the pre-vaccine era.

The world rightfully was appalled when the Taliban blew up the 1000+ year-old Buddhas of Bamiyan. Wanton destruction of world cultural heritage by ideologically-intoxicated vandals. We may be witnessing something similar right now (except death toll will be higher): theconversation.com/...

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’ HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: January 2025 | KFF As Senate hearings begin for President Trump’s health nominees, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the latest KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust shows a decline in public trust for govern...

If you have ever wondered what difference does disinformation really make, please read this:
www.kff.org/health-infor...
The kicker is not this chart, but the finding that fully 40% of Republicans think more people died from the Covid vaccine than the disease, up from 25% in 2023.

He has no business what so ever calling for a retraction.

1/#APB Summer 2025 Spotlight Day 20! Many people misunderstand police use of force - how often it’s used, officer shooting accuracy, & training levels. Research by Ariane-Jade Khanizadeh, Craig Bennell, & Heather McGale tests if public education can fix that. 🧵👇

Tyranny is not born overnight. It’s built one compromise at a time.

Column | Zuckerberg fired the fact-checkers. We tested their replacement. Our tech columnist drafted 65 community notes, Meta’s new crowdsourced system to fight falsehoods. It failed to make a dent.

Meta fired its fact-checkers, citing concerns of liberal bias, and replaced them with a version of X's "Community Notes." How's that going?

Well, my coworker @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social proposed 65 fact-checks debunking false posts... and only 3 got approved. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

"Although participants were made aware that the consensus from scientists is that non-verbal lie detection is futile, the inclusion of balanced comments alongside the data still decreased perceived scientific consensus" (Han, Snook, & Day, 2025)

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Legal and Criminological Psychology | BPS Forensic Psychology Journal | Wiley Online Library Background & Aims We examined the effect of falsely balanced messages on perceptions of expert consensus about non-verbal lie detection and whether forewarning inoculates people against the fake deb.....

1/🚨Our new paper in Legal and Criminological Psychology🚨
Fore! Does Forewarning Inoculate People Against the False Balance Effect?
By Tianshuang Han, Brent Snook, and Martin V. Day

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

doi.org/10.1111/lcrp...

Thank you Dr Schmid!

Check out our new publication bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Fore! Does forewarning inoculate people against the false balance effect? Legal and Criminological Psychology

‘People think you come out … and live happily ever after. If only.’ The reality of life after wrongful conviction ‘Sometimes I sit in the bedroom and I’m crying my eyes out like a child’

In a recent interview with The Conversation, Paddy Hill describes his harrowing experience being wrongfully convicted for the Birmingham pub bombings in 1974. His story underlines how the impact of a wrongful conviction can extend far beyond exoneration.
o theconversation.com/people-think...