The Great Courses - The Skeptics Guide to Health, Medicine, and the Media - Roy Benaroch, M.D. by Unknown, M.D., Roy Benaroch
Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins Release date: 02-01-19, If youve ever sneezed while driving your car, did you immediately think, Cars Cause the Common Cold!? No, of course not. A headline like that wouldnt make any sense. And yet, some of the sources we rely on for health and medical news are not much better. Many media outlets are perfectly happy to grab us with a wacky headline or an article that reflects none of the nuance of the study on which its basedas long as we buy the magazine or click through to the article. And we do. We take the bait. With 50,000 scientific studies published each week in English, many media outlets dont put in the time and effort to adequately decipher and report on even a tiny fraction of those studies. But they publish news about them, anyway., As consumers of medical news, how can we know whether the article we just read is based on solid science or trash?, We know we cant believe every article we read. If we did, wed conclude that everything causes cancer;
Lecture
The Great Courses - The Skeptics Guide to Health, Medicine, and the Media - Roy Benaroch, M.D.
Unknown, M.D., Roy Benaroch
Category: Lecture
Tags: Lecture, Misc. Non-fiction
Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins Release date: 02-01-19, If youve ever sneezed while driving your car, did you immediately think, Cars Cause the Common Cold!? No, of course not. A headline like that wouldnt make any sense. And yet, some of the sources we rely on for health and medical news are not much better. Many media outlets are perfectly happy to grab us with a wacky headline or an article that reflects none of the nuance of the study on which its basedas long as we buy the magazine or click through to the article. And we do. We take the bait. With 50,000 scientific studies published each week in English, many media outlets dont put in the time and effort to adequately decipher and report on even a tiny fraction of those studies. But they publish news about them, anyway., As consumers of medical news, how can we know whether the article we just read is based on solid science or trash?, We know we cant believe every article we read. If we did, wed conclude that everything causes cancer;
