A Shockley huge number of research papers are bunk. Couple guys from MIT made a fake paper generator and had to break the news because it went undiscovered for so long. Lipitor was promoted for years as a medicine that lowers the risk of stroke. My Mom and two of my close friends had stroke. Two of them are dead. Real confirmation research about Lipitor was done in Europe and Japan and found that it did little if anything to improve the actual outcome that matters.
So yes there are medical quacks everywhere online. Even and especially in places people don’t expect.
Oddly enough, despite the clickbait headline, the article supports this thesis. The only place where social media is used here is in the selection of which articles to consider judging for misleadingness. Otherwise, these articles were all carried in regular mainstream publications.
And this is a huge part of why we have a measles outbreak happening just a few miles from where I live. Fortunately everyone in my household is vaccinated, but it’s not even supposed to be a thing in the US anymore! And yet it is, not in small part because of widely shared anti-vaccination articles on social media.
My wife is pregnant and the doctors realized she isn’t immune to measles. The vaccination she had was either not effective or she didn’t develope immunity.
I read a comment on Reddit where a student said they had whooping cough but were vaccinated. Turns out most of the people who had the cough went to the same doctor to get vaccinated. The vaccine he gave was presumably a bad batch.
I’d caution against exposing your family to anything if you don’t have to. Especially measles.
Frankly, we should research and then instead of buying a new gadget, just double up, just in case....hep vaccines, tetanus etc etc. Go to a travel clinic and pay cash
Ummm..I think this can be generalized: a majority of news shared is fake or misleading or incomplete. So, what do we do about it? Even if we had a perfect filter, would we want to use it?
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 45.0 ms ] threadSo yes there are medical quacks everywhere online. Even and especially in places people don’t expect.
But on social media is the weird news that gets clicks: "eat right and exercise" is not gonna get those shares.
I read a comment on Reddit where a student said they had whooping cough but were vaccinated. Turns out most of the people who had the cough went to the same doctor to get vaccinated. The vaccine he gave was presumably a bad batch.
I’d caution against exposing your family to anything if you don’t have to. Especially measles.
Frankly, we should research and then instead of buying a new gadget, just double up, just in case....hep vaccines, tetanus etc etc. Go to a travel clinic and pay cash