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Doubt, Part Two: The Man Behind The Myth

Doubt, Part Two: The Man Behind The Myth

FromPrognosis: Losing it


Doubt, Part Two: The Man Behind The Myth

FromPrognosis: Losing it

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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Mar 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Meet the man behind all the myths: Andrew Wakefield. Wakefield’s retracted 1998 study linking autism to vaccines helped kickstart the modern vaccine hesitancy movement. We’ll explore the forces that helped propel Wakefield into the spotlight and show how groundwork Wakefield laid decades ago helped seed the mistrust we’re seeing in the age of the coronavirus.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Mar 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

For much of human history, we’ve turned to diets to lose weight and improve our health. But it’s mostly been in vain. No matter how much the number on the scale drops begins to go down, chances are that the weight will come back. That’s just what the science says. But when it comes to weight, the facts just don’t seem to matter. Losing It, a new series from Bloomberg’s Prognosis, looks at how we got weight loss so wrong — and whether there’s a better way forward.