Abstract
The era in which we live is characterized by the spread of pseudoscience and fallacious and dangerous theories in the field biomedical, an emergency that requires reflections on medical class on the origin of this drift and on which ones
strategies can be employed to contain this phenomenon. In this article, using three examples (vaccinations, cardiovascular disease, cancer), he comes placed the emphasis on the importance of enhancing the study of paleopathology and Darwinian medicine in the medical field, as a fundamental cognitive and communicative tool.
strategies can be employed to contain this phenomenon. In this article, using three examples (vaccinations, cardiovascular disease, cancer), he comes placed the emphasis on the importance of enhancing the study of paleopathology and Darwinian medicine in the medical field, as a fundamental cognitive and communicative tool.
Translated title of the contribution | Fake news in medicine: a severe lack of historico-medical and paleopathological knowledge at the heart of the problem |
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Original language | Italian |
Article number | e1000192 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Evidence |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Text of article is only available in ItalianKeywords
- Medicine
- Pseudoscience
- misinformation
- paleopathology