For several years now, I’ve been the social media curmudgeon in medicine. In a 2011 New York Times op-ed titled “Don’t Quit…
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The carefully crafted way of how health misinformation spreads
by Mary Chris Jaklevic November 9, 2018Effective clickbait doesn’t just happen. It’s carefully crafted. Take this wildly misleading article from CNN: Not exercising worse for your health than smoking,…
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Sanjay Gupta. John Locke. Jill Stein. Charles Krauthammer. What do they all have in common? If you guessed that they are all…
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Prostate cancer screening campaigns are giving men the finger
by Gary Schwitzer October 22, 2018Fifty years ago, in a golden moment of television comedy shows, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In program regularly featured “The Flying Fickle Finger…
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Americans believe in experts. We look to CPAs to complete our tax returns, lawyers to handle our disputes, plumbers to fix our…
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The internet is an amazing source of information and misinformation. How do you know if what you are reading is accurate? Be…
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The public’s apparently insatiable appetite for medical drama continues unabated as yet another prime-time TV show set in a hospital has hit…
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The Los Angeles Times recently published an article chronicling the beginning of disgraced Dr. Larry Nassar’s career up to his disgusting acts…