“If people stop trusting science, they stop trusting each other. That has huge implications for everything, not just medicine.”
Science, and medical science in particular, is under attack in today’s world. Many of our nation’s leaders are choosing politics over facts, and prioritizing profit over public health. Online, misinformation about vaccines and medications is spreading at an alarming rate.
On a new episode of The Dose podcast, host Dr. Joel Bervell discusses some of the biggest challenges facing modern medical science with Dr. Francis Collins, who served as director of the National Institutes of Health under three different presidents. They talk about how to assess the trustworthiness of an information source, why every person deserves access to their DNA sequence, what happens when politics meets science, and more.
