Five reasons you might hesitate to get the COVID vaccine, and why you should probably get it anyway: 0:46 - Unknown risks 1:48 - Effectiveness 2:28 - Fake news 3:30 - COVID conspiracy theories 4:00 - Your right not to be vaccinated Even if you are worried about getting the COVID vaccine, or are c
How do you go about avoiding becoming infected by a harmful airborne virus like COVID-19 -- especially if you're a student heading back to campus? There are, of course, a number of blindingly obvious ways to do this. However, because so many people seem to have forgotten them, I thought it worth p
When people talk about "health risk", what do they mean? Here's one perspective on risk and risk assessment that's helpful for thinking about risk in ways that help understand and reduce it. Transcript: alugha Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/RiskBites
What is risk? And what is risk assessment? [Note from AM - I've been surprised at how tough it is to talk about risk in an accessible yet accurate way in just a couple of minutes. Looking back over this video and next week's, I can feel the paranoia creeping in that some of the basic concepts are
Risk is not just a number -- it also involves how we feel about things. This week Risk Bites introduces Dr. Brian Zikmund-Fisher, who will be talking more in future videos about how we perceive and feel about risk, and what this means about the risk decisions we make. This week's Risk Bites team:
Have you ever experienced that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach? It probably meant you were dreading something. But, why is it that we dread some things and not others? And how does this affect how we feel about risk? Brian Zikmund Fisher is back with Risk Bites to talk about how we tend
If you could protect yourself or your children from developing cancer through taking a shot, would you? This week, Risk Bites looks at why HPV vaccines are recommended for protection against cervical and other cancers, and how the risks and benefits pan out. The Risk Bites Team: Producer: Andrew M
Whether children can tolerate the COVID vaccine at all has hardly been tested. The tests are not entirely harmless, as side effects can occur. That is why tests are first done on strong and healthy people, mostly young adults. Authors: ZDF/logo/Timo Amling/Marion Brand/Heidi Stifel/Jochen Schmidt
Brian Zikmund-Fisher is back to talk about how familiarity affects how we feel about risk, and how this can affect the decisions we make. This week's Risk Bites team: David Faulkner (post-production) Brian Zikmund-Fisher (narrative and animation) Andrew Maynard (all the other stuff) Risk Bites is
Pluto may be a former planet, but it's also a novel way to think about risk! On July 14th 2015, a small spacecraft will buzz a former planet in the less fashionable outskirts of our solar system. A lot of people will get excited by this, apparently thinking that the first close-up view of a lump o
How do you work out how safe or dangerous a chemical or some other substance is? This week's Risk Bites takes a look at chemical safety, and estimating health risk from chemical exposure. This week's Risk Bites team: David Faulkner (post-production) Andrew Maynard (all the other stuff) Risk Bite
What is solution-focused risk assessment, and how can it help in the governance of emerging technologies? Solution-focused risk assessment, or SFRA, is a novel way of thinking about and managing risks developed by Adam Finkel. It involves analyzing the good and bad consequences of what we can do to
