How Can We Know Who To Trust In Medicine?
The VPZD Show Ep. 23 (Early Exclusive for Sensible Medicine)
How can anyone determine who is trustworthy when it comes to medical information? In this episode of The VPZD Show we talk about:
Our new project Sensible Medicine and its role in medical sense-making
Untangling the complexities of health system change
Angry doctor Covidian tweets with magical thinking and religiosity
The dangers of over-testing and over-treatment with regards to routine blood work
Haidt’s 3 Great Untruths and attendant cognitive distortions
Pandemic response and its effect on true progressives
The consequences of ideological possession
How Vinay reviews the trustworthiness of sources
The difficulties of “debunking”
The monkeypox situation, and much more!
Video and audio versions below:
I'm curious as to how you decided that cruelty and abuse are mutually exclusive, and that "real abuse" is binary. In my experience, cruelty is abusive (by definition) and abusive acts fall somewhere on a spectrum.
@Vinay - appreciate the topics and candor so far. I practice full-time bariatric medicine. If you ever want to discuss obesity, I’d be happy to help.