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Every week, we ask you, the YLE community, what’s on your mind. Every week, we get questions about cancer and [fill-in-the-blank] prevention, cure, or treatment. It’s a game of whack-a-mole, but there’s an important thread across all of them. So, I asked Dr. Matthew Facciani–a misinformation researcher at Yale–to chime in. Matt, take it away.
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I’m not a big basketball fan, but boy, the sound of Manhattan at the final buzzer of the NBA Finals was electric in every video I came across: cheering, weeping, horns honking, singing, hugging, cigars being lit, an utter unselfconsciousness, pure and absolute jubilation. It gave me goosebumps. It’s a reminder that joy is contagious. Congratulations, New Yorkers, and thank yo...
The drug that saved your mother. The treatment your doctor recommended. The clinical trial that bought someone you love more time. None of it was inevitable. It required a system built to operate outside politics and sustained over decades, because science doesn’t operate on the timeline of a politician.
That system is now under direct threat.
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Movement is the name of the game this week: people, animals, insects, and the health impacts that follow.
The World Cup kicks off Thursday, pulling millions together in celebration, but where crowds gather, pathogens follow. We’re debuting a new section on the health signals worth watching. Also on the move: a parasitic, flesh-eating fly eradicated in the U.S. in 1966 h...
I try to keep Fridays reserved for paid YLE subscribers, and particularly the professionals and trusted messengers who are guiding households, communities, and patients. My goal is to help make your life a little easier. This week, Liz, Executive Director of The Evidence Collective—a program extension of Your Local Epidemiologist—led a scicomm training, so I’m passing the...