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Peter M. Sandman
Risk Communication Website

2013

June 5    New articles

• The San Onofre Controversy: What Should Southern California Edison Do?

  Guest column (part one), “energybiz” website, May 30, 2013

  The San Onofre Controversy: What Should We Criticize … and What Should We Praise?

  Guest column (part two), “energybiz” website, June 2, 2013

June 1    New audio file

• Atomic Show #205 – Peter Sandman teaches nuclear communicators
  (Note: This link goes to an off-site page with an MP3 audio file.)

  Podcast for the “Atomic Insights” website, May 31, 2013 (with Rod Adams, Margaret Harding, Meredith Angwin, and Suzy Hobbs-Baker)

May 29    2008 book chapter newly posted

• The Precaution Adoption Process Model

  by Neil D. Weinstein, Peter M. Sandman, and Susan J. Blalock

  Health Behavior and Health Education, 4th. ed., edited by Karen Glanz, Barbara K. Rimer, and K. Viswanath (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008), pp. 123–147.

May 17    New Peter M. Sandman in the News

• Is SoCalEd Mired in Crisis Or Controversy?

  by Ken Silverstein

  Posted on the Forbes website, May 16, 2013

  The Case against Keeping Secrets

  by Peter M. Sandman

  Excerpts from an email to Ken Silverstein, May 16, 2013

May 16    New column

• H7N9 Risk Communication: Candor but No Push to Prepare

May 7    New comments

Allegiance to the data versus allegiance to the policy goal: Kinds of advisory committee members

Messaging for a health department under pressure to recommend meningococcal vaccination to all men who have sex with men

April 18    New column

• Orienting Your Audience: Six Signposting Tips

April 17    New comment

• Delivering disappointing news: How to tell people you’re not going to do what they want

April 8    New column

• H7N9: A Tale of Two CDCs

March 24    New comment

• Who has influenced my career?

March 4    New comment

• False sense of security

February 24    New column

• Postscript: The CDC Is Up to Its Old Tricks Again re Flu Vaccine Effectiveness

February 12    New article and audio file

• More Spin than Science: Risk Communication about the H5N1 Bioengineering Research Controversy (speech notes)

  More Spin than Science: Risk Communication about the H5N1 Bioengineering Research Controversy (audio file)
  (Note: This link launches an MP3 audio file from this site.)

  Presented via telephone at a conference on “Freedom in Biological Research: How to Consider Accidental or Intentional Risks for Populations,” Fondation Mérieux and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Veyrier-du-lac, France, February 8, 2013

February 4    New comment

• The most-read articles and columns on the website

February 1    New column

• The CDC Tells More of the Truth than Usual about Flu Vaccine Effectiveness

January 17    New comment

• Using the Sandy Hook shootings to promote gun control

January 7    New Peter M. Sandman in the News

• H5N1 Researchers Ready as Moratorium Nears End

  by David Malakoff

  Published in Science, January 4, 2013, pp. 16–17.

• The Moratorium on H5N1 Bioengineering Research: What Was It For? What Did It Accomplish?In der Deutschen: Forschung mit Vogelgrippe-Virus: Reine Augenwischerei (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

  by Peter M. Sandman

  Email to David Malakoff, December 26, 2012

2012

December 27    New comment

• Stigmatizing smokeless tobacco – and how to fight back

December 12    New comment

• Does the public care about the H5N1 research controversy? How can officials involve the public? Do they really want to?

December 3    New comment

• A gradient of outrage susceptibility; outrage versus moral panic

November 16    New comment

• Revealing a problem that’s merely possible: good risk communication or self-destructive overkill?

November 9    New comment

• Warning fatigue: when bushfire warnings backfire

November 8    New comment

• Why doesn’t “Risk = Hazard + Outrage” get more attention in the academic risk communication literature?

November 3    New column

• Managing Risk Familiarity

 

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