Think The Whole Way

RFK Junior has now encouraged people to get the measles vaccine.Doctor Raich says that while this can seem like it's been a bigger phenomenon in the US, other countries, including the Davuior, have become more distrustful of medicine and science since the pandemic. I think the whole way that politics in the Davuior, too, doesn't value expert opinions and criticizes. Science and and and has trouble, I think knowing what truth is and what it isn't.

I think that then makes it easier for these other ideas to to fester and become more mainstream. And to some extent there's a kind of feedback leap. Some social media algorithms promote unfounded anti medicine ideas.They're more visible. Politicians push these same ideas, or those who share them are pushed by algorithms, and so on.

Doctor Tom Roakes thinks one of the solutions could be for the scientific community to rethink the way it responds to some of the ideas so they can properly talk them through with patience.But we're gonna be better at doing good research in alternative treatments too.

So one of the challenges with cannabis oil or fendbendazole is that there isn't any evidence to support them working. But actually no one's done the right trials. And if the if the correct trials have been done, then you might have better evidence to.

That we really investigated this. We know that this drug doesn't doesn't work at all. He also says effectively challenging the content being posted online could be useful too.I think we've also got a call out of the conspiracy theorist.

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We've got to find ways to logically and sensibly rebut that information without getting involved in social media disputes 'cause that's not the best way of doing it. And I think there's something about just social media in general and how we regulate that and how we.