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Bad Advice
- Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
- By: Paul A. Offit MD
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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Science doesn't speak for itself. Neck-deep in work that can be messy and confounding and naïve in the ways of public communication, scientists are often unable to package their insights into the neat narratives that the public requires. Enter celebrities, advocates, lobbyists, and the funders behind them, who take advantage of scientists' reluctance to provide easy answers, flooding the media with misleading or incorrect claims about health risks. In Bad Advice, Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don'ts of battling misinformation.
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- By mobius_spider on 03-22-19
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Bad Advice
- Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-30-19
- Language: English
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Paul Offit, “Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren’t Your Best Source of Health Information” (Columbia UP, 2018)
- Length: 51 mins
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You should never trust celebrities, politicians, or activists for health information. Why? Because they are not scientists! Scientists often cannot compete with celebrities when it comes to charm or evoking emotion. Science is complex and often cannot provide the easy “soundbite” worthy answers that celebrities and politicians truly comprehend. Americans are flooded with misleading or incorrect claims about health risks. In his book Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren’t Your Best Source of Health Information (Columbia University Press, 2018), Dr. Paul Offit ...
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