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Ideas for New Video on unpacking health info
🕑 Added 2019-03-21 09:44:23 +0000 UTCHey everyone,
I'm working on a video about how deal with the constant incoming information on health/food from the media. It will focus on a couple heuristics to help analyze headlines and whatnot.
There's all kinds of new studies showing low carb diets shorten lifespan, eggs are bad again and that keto gives you keto crotch. Of course in the past there's been tons of finding things like fish gives you stomach cancer, coffee gives you kidney cancer and butter gives you breast cancer (and the million other things that give and prevent cancer...) So what can you do to reassure yourself or friends about such things? - This the question that I'm planning to answer but still working on how to approach it /make it interesting.
Anyone have any recent articles or headlines they came across that gave them pause? Eggs causing diabetes, fish giving people dementia, saturated fat causing leukemia, what have you.
Any other questions /comments on this topic are welcome :)
-Joseph
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Actually I have not read that! Thank you for the recommendation, it looks precisely on line with the topic. Just got it on Kindle, will try to speed through it today
Would be really interested in something like this. A guide / some rules for navigating health news
Mark Simonson
Have you read Doctoring Data by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick? I found it to be helpful in putting headline-grabbing studies like the ones mentioned above into context. He talks about relative vs. absolute risk, motivations and biases of the people doing the studies, association vs. causation, "lives saved", and unexamined assumptions, among other things. (You probably know all this stuff anyway, but I thought it was worth mentioning.)
