Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them | Dr. Seema Yasmin

The Lindsey Elmore Show

Lindsey Elmore

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine

5.0 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor, professor and author. She is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, clinical assistant professor in Stanford University’s Department of Medicine, and visiting professor at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA where she teaches crisis management and communications. Yasmin was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news in 2017 with a team from The Dallas Morning News for coverage of a mass shooting. She is the recipient of two awards from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Her reporting appears in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, WIRED, Scientific American, and other outlets. She is a medical analyst for CNN and a correspondent for Conde Nast Entertainment. Her two new books are ‘Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them’ & ‘If God Is a Virus’. Topics covered in this episode: •How do medical subjects get so convoluted? •The true scientific method. •Are electronic cigarettes safe? •Drug doses and brand effects. •How we need to fix the lack of medical representation. •Does birth control cause depression? •How diet sodas affect our health. •Universities, academic institutions and individual academics that are being bought off. •Are medical errors the leading cause of death? •Inspiring people to find answers. Referenced in the episode: •The Lindsey Elmore Show Ep 112 | Learning to heal yourself with purpose & direction | Dr. Patrick Hanaway •The Lindsey Elmore Show Ep 124 | Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America Gerald Posner To learn more about Dr. Seema Yasmin and her work, head over to seemayasmin.com Must watch past episodes: •The Lindsey Elmore Show Ep 120 | How to become more spiritually healthy | Michele Sammons •The Lindsey Elmore Show Ep 115 | Turning life into meditation | Dr. Jenelle Kim •The Lindsey Elmore Show Ep 93 | Spirituality and mental health | Dr. Anna Yusim The Metabolic Makeover Summit is happening free and online August 30th to September 5th and registration is now open. Head over to www.lindseyelmore.com/metabolicmakeover We hope you enjoyed this episode. Come check us out at www.lindseyelmore.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to today's episode of the Lindsay Elmore show.
0:04.1	Can your zip code predict when you'll die?
0:07.9	Is it more dangerous to go to the hospital in July?
0:11.3	Should you space out childhood vaccinations?
0:13.8	Does talcum powder really cause cancer?
0:16.6	Why does some doctors recommend e-cigarettes while others recommend you stay away from them?
0:22.9	Health information and misinformation is all around us, and it can be very hard to separate the two.
0:31.6	In the United States, we have a long history of unethical medical experiments and medical mistakes, along with a host of
0:41.0	celebrities who have anti-scientific beliefs. This has left many wary of science and the scientists
0:49.5	who say that they should be trusted. How can we all stay sane while unraveling the knots of fact
0:59.9	and fiction to find out what should we really be concerned about and what do we really need to
1:09.9	just set aside and laugh off?
1:13.3	My guest today is Seema Yasmin.
1:16.0	She wrote a book, Viral BS, and she is a journalist, a physician, a professor, and a CDC-trained
1:24.3	disease detective.
1:26.7	She is driven by the need to set their record straight and dissect
1:31.7	some of the most widely circulating medical myths and pseudoscience. She explores how epidemics of
1:41.1	misinformation can spread faster than microbes. Dr. Yasmin asks why science is sometimes
1:51.1	more believable than facts. Why does bad science really skew our views more so than true facts. In her book, she covers a specific
2:07.6	myth in easy-to-read chapters that answers pressing questions like, are medical errors the third
2:15.4	leading cards of death? Do football players get brain disease?
2:20.3	Why is the CDC banned from studying guns?
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