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Steven Novella
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Founder and Executive Editor, Science-Based Medicine
United States
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Fitness, Style , Beauty, Tech, Home , Lifestyle
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By Steven Novella Verified| Science-Based Medicine Verified I think it’s important to recognize not only how fake science can degrade medicine and exploit health care consumers, but also how real science can benefit medicine and consumers. It’s also important to separate hype from reality, because there often is science-based snake oil, meaning that there are fake treatments based on the hype of real science. We are near the beginning of some real and exciting medical science and it’s important to track where we are.
By Steven Novella Verified| Science-Based Medicine Verified The core mission of SBM comes down to a few things – examining the complex relationship between scientific evidence and healthcare, exploring issues of how optimally to regulate health care and health products, and fighting misinformation. Over the years I think we have made some solid strides on the first category. The medical infrastructure has been trending increasing towards higher standards of scientific evidence and greater awareness of the many pitfalls of bad science or pseudoscience.
By Steven Novella Verified| Science-Based Medicine Verified I think it’s important to recognize not only how fake science can degrade medicine and exploit health care consumers, but also how real science can benefit medicine and consumers. It’s also important to separate hype from reality, because there often is science-based snake oil, meaning that there are fake treatments based on the hype of real science. We are near the beginning of some real and exciting medical science and it’s important to track where we are.
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Science-Based Medicine