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Causes or Cures🔒 The Misinformation Massacre: Is Public Health Targeting the Wrong Enemy?Subscriber-only episodeSend us a textIn this bonus episode of Causes or Cures, Dr. Eeks dives into the "War on Misinformation" and unravels its complexities. Is misinformation truly an "infodemic," like a virus infecting our brains? Is the militaristic approach to misinformation missing the mark? Here we explore how misinformation is policed online, the rise of fact-checkers, and some of the biggest misinformation scandals of our time, including the opioid epidemic and the tobacco industry's attempts to define "sound science" while squelching the truth about second-hand smoke as a...2024-10-1139 min
Causes or CuresIs There Anybody Out There?Send us a textKicking off the New Year with a fun one! In this episode of Causes or Cures, Dr. Eeks chats with Dr. Naor Sagy on whether or not space aliens are out there; what they look like and how they act; our motivation for wanting to meet them (and their motivation for wanting to meet us); and what could possibly happen if we meet each other. Consider this a fun, shooting-the-breeze podcast. Neither Dr. Eeks nor Dr. Sagy have any special knowledge on space alien life form. However, they both like space, mysteries...2024-01-0433 min