They've seen friends or relatives either succumb or get very sick and so they don't want that to happen and they'll they'll listen to anything that you know has potential

believability but

believability is one thing the data and the proof is another

Hey everyone and welcome to the psychology podcast as you know i'm deeply interested in science and current affairs

in the era we are living through right now i feel it's more important than ever to bring you topical conversations based in science

and that's what we're doing today and we'll be continuing to do in the coming months

i've been increasingly frustrated by the spread of unsubstantiated information being spread all across the

internet about the pandemic it's important to recognize that when we're dealing with a very new or

rapidly changing phenomenon like we have been with the pandemic even the quote scientific consensus

can easily be wrong because there's not been much time for the rigorous replicability studies to be

conducted or even sometimes to accurately measure the proper effect sizes however i also believe it's

important that we don't create a false equivalency between very fringe ideas that are unsupported by the

current evidence base and a scientific consensus that is grounded in rigorous methodology this is why

i saw it out the council of dr eric topel on today's show

despite being one of the top 10 most cited researchers in medicine and being extremely well regarded

in his field of cardiology he's also been a bright light on social media shining a light on the

best available evidence in the pandemic he thoughtfully considered all my questions and was very

careful to make clear what the current evidence base says without ruling out alternative

possibilities in the future in light of new evidence in this episode we cover a number of hot

button issues surrounding the pandemic including the potential use of iver mechton to end the pandemic

the potential for increased risk of myocarditis among certain populations after vaccination

and we even discuss the role human psychology and human behavior has played in this pandemic

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