'Trump’s rolling out a vaccine without adequate testing as an October surprise to aid his reelection would 'set off a lot of confusion about whether it works,' generating more vaccine skepticism among the public.' Column by hiltzikm:
Trump attacks the Food and Drug Administration and undermines its science while its leadership stays silent.
The space race occurred “in an extraordinary time with an extraordinary amount of resources put into it to achieve a finite, physical goal,” says Timothy Caulfield, an expert in health law and policy at the University of Alberta and a veteran debunker of scientific hokum. “That’s an exception to the reality of how science normally plays out.
Never mind that learning a new language can take years of painstaking study and that if you don’t have charm by the time you reach adulthood, well, you’ll probably never have it. It’s also what makes us vulnerable for anecdotal or even fraudulent claims for untested nostrums such as homeopathic remedies or stem cell treatments, especially when the curative claims are directed at desperate victims of intractable diseases.
Why wait for a treatment to undergo years of tests and trials, when an alternative is available today by mail order, bearing an endorsement from Dr. Oz or Gwyneth Paltrow?The news media and social media are often defenseless against science hype, in part because it tends to be generated by the publicity offices of respected universities.
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