Health misinformation

A famous Zen story captures one of the hardest problems in communicating science, especially in an age shaped by divisive social media commentary.

I am not one to consider a 1% shift in mortality particularly meaningful, but deaths in our middle years are rare, so a six-fold increase in premature deaths gets my attention.

Numerous researchers have pointed out nutritional research’s worrying prevalence of poorly conducted studies and irrational conclusions.