Curing Medical Misinformation with Dr. Noc & Scott Hamilton Kennedy

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Can you trust medical information on the internet? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly team up with pharmaceutical scientist and social media “medfluencer” Morgan McSweeny (aka Dr. Noc) to break down common internet medical myths from Big Pharma to raw milk to vaccine hesitancy. Plus a discussion with filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy from Shot in the Arm.

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0:00.0	What's a person to do online trying to find medical information that they can trust?
0:05.0	We gotta step in and do something about that.
0:07.0	We'll have to find someone who knows the truth.
0:10.0	Yeah, I think we already have him.
0:12.0	He's here now.
0:13.0	Oh, that's good.
0:14.0	Yeah.
0:15.0	It's not me, by the way.
0:16.0	That's a relief.
0:17.0	On StarTalk, how to sift back from fiction on medical information on the internet.
0:22.3	Coming right up.
0:24.8	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:27.4	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:33.4	StarTalk begins right now.
0:37.4	This is StarTalk, right now.
0:40.9	This is StarTalk, special edition.
0:44.7	And when it's special edition, you know we've got Gary O'Reilly, Gary.
0:45.4	Hi, Neil.
0:46.7	Chuck Knight, how you doing, man?
0:47.8	Hey, what's happening, guys? Can't do a show without you.
0:48.9	Oh, man, that's very nice.
0:50.1	Oh, do we do sometimes.
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