Health misinformation

Imagine how bizarre it would be to open up to a friend about suffering from stomach pain, excessive gas, and severe heartburn, only for them to simply ask, "Have you tried blowing tobacco smoke up your rectum?"

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.