Recent Writing

Selected Essays, Op-Eds. Research Summaries and Commentaries

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2025

 

Lipkin, W.I., Fischhoff, B., & Danzig, L. (2025, February 9).  Adversarial Collaboration: A pathway for vaccine policy. Pittsburgh-Post Gazette (Insight Section). https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2025/02/09/vaccine-skepticism-adversarial-collaboration-fda-evidence/stories/202502090061

 

2024

 

Fischhoff, B. (2024). Retrospective: Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024). Science, 384(66995), n5151. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp6405

 

2023

 

Fischhoff, B., Cetron, M., & Jetelina, K. (2023). Do masks work? Randomized controlled trials are the worst way to answer the question. STAT. https://www.statnews.com/2023/05/02/do-masks-work-rcts-randomized-controlled-trials/

 

Fischhoff, B., Woloshin, S., Krishnamurti, T., & Dewitt, B. (2023). Patients may finally receive practical information about prescriptions – if the FDA doesn’t blow it. STAT. https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/12/fda-prescription-information-one-pagers/

 

2022

 

Greenberg, M., & Lowrie, K. (2022). Baruch Fischhoff: Creating, testing, and communicating theories about risk perception, public preferences, and communication. Risk Analysis, 42, 1895-1899. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13996.

 

2021

 

Fischhoff, B. (2021).  The COVID communication breakdown. Foreign Affairs. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-10-04/covid-communication-breakdown

 

Fischhoff, B., Dewitt, B., Sahlin, N-E., & Davis, A.L. (2021). A secure procedure for early career scientists to report apparent misconduct. Life Sciences, Society and Policy, 17(2).  doi: 10.1186/s40504-020-00110-6 [https://rdcu.be/cd838]

 

2020

 

Fischhoff, B.  (2020).  Making decisions in a COVID-19 world.  JAMA, 324(2), 139-140. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.10178

 

Fischhoff, B.  (2020).  The microbiomes of gut-level decisions.  CQ (Critical Quarterly), 62(1), 30-37. doi.org/10.1111/criq.12525

 

Soares-Weiser, K., Lasserson, T., Jorgensen, K.J., Woloshin, S., Bero, L., Brown, B., & Fischhoff, B. (2020). Policy makers must act on incomplete evidence in responding to COVID-19 (Editorial).  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (11), ED000149 https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.ED000149

 

World Health Organization.  (2020).  The importance of testing messages.  Fiona Fleck interviews Baruch Fischhoff.  Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 98, 516-517. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7411322/

 

2019

 

Dewitt, B., Fischhoff, B., & Sahlin, N-E. (2019). “Moral machine” experiment is no basis for policy making (Correspondence). Nature, 567, 31. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00766-x

 

Fischhoff, B. (2019).  Tough calls.  Scientific American, 321(3), 74-79.  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-assessing-novel-risks-facts-are-not-enough/

 

Fischhoff, B., & Barnato, A.E.  (2019).  Value awareness: A goal for end-of-life decision making.  Medical Decision Making: Policy and Practice, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2381468318817523

 

2017

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Klein, O., Hegarty, P., & Fischhoff, B.  (2017).  Hindsight forty years on.  Memory Studies, 10(3), 249-260. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698017701606

 

2015

 

Fischhoff, B.  (2015).  The realities of risk-cost-benefit analysis.  Science, 350(6260), 527.  

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaa6516

 

2012

 

Fischhoff, B.  (2012, Summer).  Communicating uncertainty: Fulfilling the duty to inform.  Issues in Science and Technology, 28(4), 63-70. https://issues.org/fischhoff/

 

2011

 

Fischhoff, B.  (2011).  Applying the science of communication to the communication of science.  Climatic Change, 108, 701-705. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-011-0183-9

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Fischhoff, B.  (2011).  Communicating the risks of terrorism (and anything else).  American Psychologist, 66, 520-531. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024570

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Fischhoff, B.  (2011).  The emotions of the nuclear experts.  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. https://thebulletin.org/2011/04/the-emotions-of-nuclear-experts-2

 

2009

 

Fischhoff, B.  (2009).  The nuclear energy industry’s communication problem.  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist. https://thebulletin.org/2009/02/the-nuclear-energy-industrys-communication-problem/