F. Perry Wilson
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Of course.
You know, I have tried and it only elicits scales of laughter.
So I just can't pull it off.
It's been going great.
Yeah.
I mean, this is a book that I think is very much in line with what you guys talk about every week.
It's about why people are susceptible to medical misinformation, you know, the cognitive biases, the motivated reasoning that
It leads people to make bad choices.
But I try to be fair and I think one of the things that people are really responding to about the book is that I acknowledge that part of the reason that people go to alternative practitioners and engage with sort of hokum is because they're not getting something from the medical establishment, that we're failing in some fundamental ways to provide the best possible care for our patients.
So I –
I think it's important to take a kind of holistic view here and see what's going on.
It is and we're kind of in a world where nuance is really unpopular.
In social media, it's like the way you get engagement is by taking very extreme positions and of course in medicine and I think in most things in science, the extreme positions are rarely correct.
Usually there is some gray area and I think pharmaceutical companies is a –
A perfect example.
Yeah, they're for profit.
That is their motivation.
At the same time, there are some drugs that are essentially medical miracles, cures for hepatitis C. Obviously, these are big, big things that are life-changing for people.
Exactly.
Yeah, it does generate a lot of clicks.
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