Biomedical scientist Dr. Andrea Love sits with WIRED to answer questions about pseudoscience, health fads, and wellness claims. The doctor answers various about healthcare including vaccines and autism, household chemicals to avoid, raw milk risks, probiotics, and several others.
When asked which pseudoscience she believes has done the most harm, Dr. Love responded that anti-vaccine misinformation may have done the most damage. “It leads to the increased spread of infectious diseases.. increased morbidity, illness, and mortality death among populations where those illnesses and deaths are preventable… vaccines are estimated to have saved over 150 million lives in the last several decades. They truly are one of the miracles of modern medicine.”
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