F. Perry Wilson: The Formula for Medical Misinformation

Harlan answers questions about the cardiac arrest suffered by Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin in a nationally televised football game; Howie reports on the rapid spread of the XBB 1.5 variant of COVID-19. And they are joined by F. Perry Wilson, a Yale nephrologist and an expert in the translation of medical research into clinical care, to discuss his new book, How Medicine Works and When It Doesn’t: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy. Links: “Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin suffers a cardiac arrest during Monday's game” “What Is Cardiac Arrest? What to Know About Why Damar Hamlin Collapsed” F. Perry Wilson: How Medicine Works and When it Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy “Exposed: conman's role in prayer-power IVF ‘miracle’” “The MMR vaccine and autism: Sensation, refutation, retraction, and fraud” “Omicron offshoot XBB.1.5 could drive new Covid-19 surge in US” Eric Topol: “A new variant alert” Eric Topol on Twitter: “Why hasn't Paxlovid implementation lived up to its expectations?”