Medical Myths and How to Fight Them with Dr. Seema Yasmin

Factually! with Adam Conover

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4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

To stop a deadly disease, you need more than medicine -- you need to change people’s minds. Journalist and doctor Seema Yasmin joins Adam this week to discuss how to combat harmful medical myths. They discuss how much more powerful narratives are than statistics, the difference between being anti-vaxx and being vaccine-hesitant, and why you shouldn’t eat your placenta after giving birth no matter what the celebrities tell you. Dr. Seema Yasmin's book - Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall For Them - is out now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum Podcast. I don't know what to think
0:13.0	I don't know what to say
0:16.0	and that's all right
0:19.0	yeah that's all right
0:21.0	and that's okay
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:28.0	Hello, welcome to factually. I'm Adam Conover.
0:31.0	And let's talk about the pandemic again. You know the pandemic is killing a
0:34.9	massive number of people on our planet and nowhere more than in our country, the
0:40.9	United States. But there is a bright side, because soon after the pandemic kit,
0:46.3	we saw our massive, incredibly sophisticated medical research
0:50.4	apparatus spin up in this brilliant beautiful way.
0:54.5	The US federal government, the National Institutes of Health, and our private pharmaceutical industry
0:59.5	together, created cutting edge MRNA vaccines which is a technology that until just a couple years ago was
1:06.6	theoretical. They used this technology to create vaccines in a fraction of the time that they took in the past and these vaccines now that they are done and they have been tested,
1:17.0	many of them are about 95% effective.
1:20.0	This is huge. I mean, this is space race stuff.
1:24.0	It is truly incredible in terms of our technological and scientific
1:27.5	sophistication.
1:28.5	And even more incredibly, this all happened under a presidential administration that is
1:32.4	avowedly
1:33.2	anti science. It required coordination between the government
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