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Medical misinformation is making us sick

Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing
Oct 23, 2024
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I've seen the effect of medical misinformation on social media described as "Munchausens by TikTok," which captures pithily the image of everyone drowning in sleazy, pseudoscientific wellness content, becoming obsessed with fictitious problems and minor ailments. But on reflection, thinking about it like that only compounds the proble…

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