Season 3, Episode 20: Evidence-Based Medicine
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Season 3, Episode 20: Evidence-Based Medicine
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There are many shades of gray between opinion, theory, and fact, which can make it near impossible for healthcare consumers to navigate their choices. The principles of evidence-based medicine were designed to address this huge unmet need. It is the crowning achievement of a 300-year scientific pursuit that has resulted in dramatic increases in human life expectancy; responsible for lowering maternal and fetal mortality as well as a more than 30% decline in annual cancer mortality over the past 25 years. Celebrated for decades, it is now under assault with distrust, cynicism, and conspiratorial accusations by a shadow network of influencers that use pseudoscience and outright lies to enrich themselves while they prey upon the ill, the desperate, and the gullible. We begin our podcast examining ivermectin.