Dr. Steven Novella

And the entire, really, medical school curriculum

over the last 30 years has evolved away from, here are some facts for you to know and to memorize.

Not that it was ever just that, but that was a lot of it.

A lot of lecturing to, this is how you think, like a clinician, right?

Because we just assume now they have access to all the data that they need.

And we don't really need to be a conduit of facts.

Like, just look it up.

I'll tell you how to look up facts, maybe how to evaluate them, how to put it all together.

But what I'm really teaching you is how to think.

That's like the number one thing I need to teach you, how to think like a clinician.

And I lecture specifically about that, specifically about what is science-based medicine and how do you look at the literature and come to a conclusion about what works and what doesn't work and what's true and what's not true.

You can't.

I mean, depending on the level that you're talking about, right?

So for a non-expert, the answer is find out what the experts are saying.

That's the answer.

So you want to find out what the—find some reliable sources, you know,

essentially institutions that are dedicated to science, that are not dedicated to a product or a conclusion, right?

So you don't want to look at the society for anti-vaccine, whatever.

You want to look at just a general scientific organization who pours through the evidence and puts out a position statement or whatever.

Not an advocacy group.