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Women’s health misinformation | Dr Jen Gunter, OB, GYN

The Proof with Simon Hill

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The Consequences of Disinformation

When you're not constrained by facts, you can really spin quite the yarn. People have a misunderstanding of what menopause is or how the menstrual cycle works. I think we all have a difficult time parsing risks and the way misinformation and disinformation spreads on social media plays into our uniquely human inability to put risk in perspective. And so there's a lot of hesitancy people stop medications early. There's fear of doing things that we know are helpful.

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