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How the Internet Changed Healthcare w/ Medlife Crisis

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The Anti-Elite Mentality of Not Trusting Experts

Pseudoscience is non-scientific or unscientific like tarot cards. It's not a new thing, but it clearly seems to be driving more of the national conversation due to social media and certainly all the other things you mentioned. The pseudoscience that I'm referring to there is where it sounds scientific and people think they're legitimate scientists in their field. This tends to be broscience which gives you an indication of who is more susceptible to this kind of stuff. Women may be more interested in what Gwyneth Paltrow is saying than Joe Rogan. There has been a massive explosion in this kind of bro science with some pretty outlandish claims being made about nutrition

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