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You’ve heard me vent about disinformation and how science is easily misrepresented and misunderstood, not because it’s hard, but because of the channels we receive information through. We also have a challenge with our own human limits dealing with ambiguity, complexity, and some counterintuitive aspects of reality that science illuminates. Examining and evaluating the “how”…
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This is a difficult time to be a health care professional dedicated to improving our systems. Along with all the problems inherent to the peculiar American way of providing care, we now have an Administration openly promoting health disinformation from the MAHA movement through the actions of the Secretary Health and Human Services, Robert F.…
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(originally posted on Your Angry Pediatrician on Substack, lightly edited) This is a story of how in science, despite our attempts to achieve some understanding of objective reality, context still matters. What seems like a good idea in one instance can become a really bad idea in another, not because the science changed, because it…
Robert Wack 