The vast amount of misinformation circulating in public health is largely due to not understanding evidence-based science.

Scientists once thought illness was caused by “miasmas,” foul vapors that drifted through the air. For centuries, they were certain that the sun rotated around the Earth. Until the 1950s, they ...

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