🏷️ Diagnostic Controversy

Stories of contested diagnoses where science, culture, and patient experience collide, raising urgent questions about who gets to define illness and on what terms.

Every Patient Tells a Story

by Lisa Sanders • 2009

Most diagnoses are found in what the patient says, yet doctors cut them off within seconds.

3.96

9k+

🩺 Clinical Diagnosis 📖 Narrative Medicine ⚠️ Diagnostic Errors

Every Patient Tells a Story 91%

Most diagnoses are found in what the patient says, yet doctors cut them off within seconds.

by Lisa Sanders 2009

3.96

9k+ ratings

🩺 Clinical Diagnosis 📖 Narrative Medicine ⚠️ Diagnostic Errors

The Age of Diagnosis

by Suzanne O'Sullivan • 2025

We pursue diagnosis for certainty and safety. The pursuit itself is making us sick.

4.11

3k+

🩺 Medical Overdiagnosis 📈 Diagnostic Expansion 🧠 Expectation Effects

The Age of Diagnosis 90%

We pursue diagnosis for certainty and safety. The pursuit itself is making us sick.

by Suzanne O'Sullivan 2025

4.11

3k+ ratings

🩺 Medical Overdiagnosis 📈 Diagnostic Expansion 🧠 Expectation Effects

Diagnosis

by Lisa Sanders • 2019

High-tech scans get the glory, but the real diagnostic work starts with a doctor who listens.

4.00

4k+

🧩 Medical Mysteries 🦠 Rare Diseases 🧠 Cognitive Biases

Diagnosis 90%

High-tech scans get the glory, but the real diagnostic work starts with a doctor who listens.

by Lisa Sanders 2019

4.00

4k+ ratings

🧩 Medical Mysteries 🦠 Rare Diseases 🧠 Cognitive Biases

Ending Medical Reversal

by Vinayak K. Prasad • 2015

Why standard medical treatments from stents to hormone therapy keep getting overturned.

4.36

407

📊 Evidence-Based Medicine 🧪 Clinical Trials 🔍 Overdiagnosis

Ending Medical Reversal 89%

Why standard medical treatments from stents to hormone therapy keep getting overturned.

by Vinayak K. Prasad 2015

4.36

407 ratings

📊 Evidence-Based Medicine 🧪 Clinical Trials 🔍 Overdiagnosis

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR

by American Psychiatric Association • 1952

A taxonomy of mental disorders built on evidence and clinical judgment, not on theory or assumption.

3.90

12k+

🩺 Clinical Diagnosis 📋 Diagnostic Manuals 📊 Clinical Assessment

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Summary

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR 89%

A taxonomy of mental disorders built on evidence and clinical judgment, not on theory or assumption.

by American Psychiatric Association 1952

3.90

12k+ ratings

🩺 Clinical Diagnosis 📋 Diagnostic Manuals 📊 Clinical Assessment

The Laws of Medicine

by Siddhartha Mukherjee • 2015

Why a strong hunch beats a weak test, and other laws of a science built on uncertainty.

4.07

5k+

🧮 Bayesian Reasoning 🧠 Clinical Reasoning ❓ Medical Uncertainty

The Laws of Medicine 89%

Why a strong hunch beats a weak test, and other laws of a science built on uncertainty.

by Siddhartha Mukherjee 2015

4.07

5k+ ratings

🧮 Bayesian Reasoning 🧠 Clinical Reasoning ❓ Medical Uncertainty

Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo

by Ian Harris • 2016

Many common surgeries work no better than a fake incision: a surgeon reveals the evidence.

4.16

196

🔬 Evidence-Based Medicine ⚠️ Medical Overtreatment 💊 Placebo Studies

Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo 89%

Many common surgeries work no better than a fake incision: a surgeon reveals the evidence.

by Ian Harris 2016

4.16

196 ratings

🔬 Evidence-Based Medicine ⚠️ Medical Overtreatment 💊 Placebo Studies

The Great Prostate Hoax

by Richard J. Ablin • 2014

The PSA test generates billions and doesn't save lives. Its discoverer explains how that happened.

4.49

115

🩺 Medical Overdiagnosis 🔬 Cancer Screening 📊 Evidence-Based Medicine

The Great Prostate Hoax 89%

The PSA test generates billions and doesn't save lives. Its discoverer explains how that happened.

by Richard J. Ablin 2014

4.49

115 ratings

🩺 Medical Overdiagnosis 🔬 Cancer Screening 📊 Evidence-Based Medicine

The Family Gene

by Joselin Linder • 2017

One family's mystery illness made them swell, choke. The gene revealed the liver pumps blood too.

4.05

1k+

🧬 Genetic Disorders 🦠 Rare Diseases 🔍 Medical Mysteries

The Family Gene 89%

One family's mystery illness made them swell, choke. The gene revealed the liver pumps blood too.

by Joselin Linder 2017

4.05

1k+ ratings

🧬 Genetic Disorders 🦠 Rare Diseases 🔍 Medical Mysteries

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5

by American Psychiatric Association • 2013

Mental health's diagnostic rulebook, reorganized to reflect that disorders bleed into one another.

4.16

4k+

🩺 Clinical Diagnosis 📋 Psychiatric Taxonomy 🔍 Differential Diagnosis

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5 Summary

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5 88%

Mental health's diagnostic rulebook, reorganized to reflect that disorders bleed into one another.

by American Psychiatric Association 2013

4.16

4k+ ratings

🩺 Clinical Diagnosis 📋 Psychiatric Taxonomy 🔍 Differential Diagnosis

Blind Spots

by Marty Makary • 2024

Peanut avoidance caused an epidemic. Hormone therapy wrongly abandoned. The errors follow a pattern.

4.34

5k+

🔒 Medical Dogma 🔄 Medical Reversals 🧠 Cognitive Biases

Blind Spots 88%

Peanut avoidance caused an epidemic. Hormone therapy wrongly abandoned. The errors follow a pattern.

by Marty Makary 2024

4.34

5k+ ratings

🔒 Medical Dogma 🔄 Medical Reversals 🧠 Cognitive Biases

How Doctors Think

by Jerome Groopman • 2007

Why doctors misdiagnose, and the simple questions that can stop a cognitive error cold.

3.93

13k+

🧠 Cognitive Biases ⚠️ Medical Error 🩺 Doctor Patient Relationship

How Doctors Think 88%

Why doctors misdiagnose, and the simple questions that can stop a cognitive error cold.

by Jerome Groopman 2007

3.93

13k+ ratings

🧠 Cognitive Biases ⚠️ Medical Error 🩺 Doctor Patient Relationship

Brain on Fire

by Susannah Cahalan • 2012

A phantom bug bite, then catatonia. A brain biopsy found an autoimmune disease, not mental illness.

4.09

239k+

🔍 Medical Mystery 📖 Illness Memoir 🦠 Autoimmune Disease

Brain on Fire 88%

A phantom bug bite, then catatonia. A brain biopsy found an autoimmune disease, not mental illness.

by Susannah Cahalan 2012

4.09

239k+ ratings

🔍 Medical Mystery 📖 Illness Memoir 🦠 Autoimmune Disease

No More Normal

by Alastair Santhouse • 2025

Four times more mental disorders than 70 years ago. A psychiatrist asks: have we lost normal?

4.04

🧠 Psychiatric Overreach 📈 Diagnostic Inflation 🏥 Medicalizing Distress

No More Normal 88%

Four times more mental disorders than 70 years ago. A psychiatrist asks: have we lost normal?

by Alastair Santhouse 2025

4.04

91 ratings

🧠 Psychiatric Overreach 📈 Diagnostic Inflation 🏥 Medicalizing Distress

Limits to Medicine

by Ivan Illich • 1974

Modern medicine has itself become an epidemic. The cure is not more treatment but less.

4.04

612

🩺 Medical Criticism 💊 Medicalization 🏗️ Social Construction Of Illness

Limits to Medicine 88%

Modern medicine has itself become an epidemic. The cure is not more treatment but less.

by Ivan Illich 1974

4.04

612 ratings

🩺 Medical Criticism 💊 Medicalization 🏗️ Social Construction Of Illness

Saving Normal

by Allen Frances • 2013

The psychiatrist who chaired the DSM-IV explains why normal human suffering now earns a diagnosis.

3.85

2k+

🏥 Psychiatric Overdiagnosis 💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🩺 Medicalization Critique

Saving Normal 88%

The psychiatrist who chaired the DSM-IV explains why normal human suffering now earns a diagnosis.

by Allen Frances 2013

3.85

2k+ ratings

🏥 Psychiatric Overdiagnosis 💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🩺 Medicalization Critique

Follow the Science

by Sharyl Attkisson • 2024

The medical system is not broken. It works exactly as the drug industry paid it to.

4.25

569

💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🩻 Medical Corruption 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

Follow the Science 88%

The medical system is not broken. It works exactly as the drug industry paid it to.

by Sharyl Attkisson 2024

4.25

569 ratings

💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🩻 Medical Corruption 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

Unaccountable

by Marty Makary • 2012

Hospital staff know which doctors to avoid. Here is what to ask to find out.

4.29

2k+

🏥 Hospital Accountability 🔍 Medical Transparency 🛡️ Patient Safety

Unaccountable 88%

Hospital staff know which doctors to avoid. Here is what to ask to find out.

by Marty Makary 2012

4.29

2k+ ratings

🏥 Hospital Accountability 🔍 Medical Transparency 🛡️ Patient Safety

Desperate Remedies

by Andrew Scull • 2022

For two centuries, psychiatry's cures have caused more harm than the illnesses they target.

4.09

448

🏥 History Of Psychiatry 🏛️ Institutional Critique 💉 Medical Hubris

Desperate Remedies 88%

For two centuries, psychiatry's cures have caused more harm than the illnesses they target.

by Andrew Scull 2022

4.09

448 ratings

🏥 History Of Psychiatry 🏛️ Institutional Critique 💉 Medical Hubris

Complications

by Atul Gawande • 2002

Guesswork, uncertainty, and routine error: a surgeon's casebook from inside the operating room.

4.28

53k+

🏥 Surgical Memoir ⚖️ Medical Ethics 📖 Narrative Medicine

Complications 88%

Guesswork, uncertainty, and routine error: a surgeon's casebook from inside the operating room.

by Atul Gawande 2002

4.28

53k+ ratings

🏥 Surgical Memoir ⚖️ Medical Ethics 📖 Narrative Medicine

Doctored

by Sandeep Jauhar • 2014

Fee-for-service broke the healers. A cardiologist's personal account of what American medicine lost.

3.61

1k+

🇺🇸 American Healthcare 🩺 Medical Memoir 😞 Physician Burnout

Doctored 88%

Fee-for-service broke the healers. A cardiologist's personal account of what American medicine lost.

by Sandeep Jauhar 2014

3.61

1k+ ratings

🇺🇸 American Healthcare 🩺 Medical Memoir 😞 Physician Burnout

A Statin Nation

by Malcolm Kendrick • 2019

Cholesterol isn't the killer. Statins add days, not decades. The drug trials were rigged.

4.61

282

🩺 Medical Skepticism 🫀 Cholesterol Controversy 💊 Pharma Criticism

A Statin Nation 88%

Cholesterol isn't the killer. Statins add days, not decades. The drug trials were rigged.

by Malcolm Kendrick 2019

4.61

282 ratings

🩺 Medical Skepticism 🫀 Cholesterol Controversy 💊 Pharma Criticism

Tripping Over the Truth

by Travis Christofferson • 2014

Cancer's real weakness may not be genetic. It may be metabolic: what tumors eat to survive.

4.53

952

🔬 Cancer Metabolism 🫀 Metabolic Health 💊 Metabolic Therapy

Tripping Over the Truth 88%

Cancer's real weakness may not be genetic. It may be metabolic: what tumors eat to survive.

by Travis Christofferson 2014

4.53

952 ratings

🔬 Cancer Metabolism 🫀 Metabolic Health 💊 Metabolic Therapy

World Without Cancer

by G. Edward Griffin • 1974

Cancer as a nutritional deficiency, cured by apricot seeds, and the cartel that buried the science.

4.31

495

🎗️ Cancer Treatment 🍽️ Dietary Deficiency 🕵️ Medical Conspiracy

World Without Cancer 87%

Cancer as a nutritional deficiency, cured by apricot seeds, and the cartel that buried the science.

by G. Edward Griffin 1974

4.31

495 ratings

🎗️ Cancer Treatment 🍽️ Dietary Deficiency 🕵️ Medical Conspiracy

Forbidden Knowledge

by Terence H. Young • 2023

What your pharmacist doesn't tell you, and why the safest drugs are the least promoted.

💊 Big Pharma 🛡️ Regulatory Capture ⚖️ Medical Ethics

Forbidden Knowledge 87%

What your pharmacist doesn't tell you, and why the safest drugs are the least promoted.

by Terence H. Young 2023

💊 Big Pharma 🛡️ Regulatory Capture ⚖️ Medical Ethics

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health

by Nathan Filer • 2019

A nurse turned journalist traces psychosis to its real roots: poverty, trauma, and racism.

4.28

3k+

🔍 Psychiatric Critique 💔 Trauma And Psychosis 🏘️ Social Determinants

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health Summary

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health 87%

A nurse turned journalist traces psychosis to its real roots: poverty, trauma, and racism.

by Nathan Filer 2019

4.28

3k+ ratings

🔍 Psychiatric Critique 💔 Trauma And Psychosis 🏘️ Social Determinants

The Doctor Who Fooled the World

by Brian Deer • 2020

The vaccine study that scared the world was a lie. Twelve children's medical records held the proof.

4.04

2k+

🩺 Medical Fraud 💉 Vaccine Misinformation 🔍 Investigative Journalism

The Doctor Who Fooled the World 87%

The vaccine study that scared the world was a lie. Twelve children's medical records held the proof.

by Brian Deer 2020

4.04

2k+ ratings

🩺 Medical Fraud 💉 Vaccine Misinformation 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Destructive Trends in Mental Health

by Rogers H. Wright • 2005

Therapy now invents disorders, buries science, and rewards victimhood. Patients pay the price.

3.95

🧠 Clinical Psychology 🏷️ Diagnostic Overreach ⚖️ Psychology Ethics

Destructive Trends in Mental Health Summary

Destructive Trends in Mental Health 87%

Therapy now invents disorders, buries science, and rewards victimhood. Patients pay the price.

by Rogers H. Wright 2005

3.95

21 ratings

🧠 Clinical Psychology 🏷️ Diagnostic Overreach ⚖️ Psychology Ethics

War on Ivermectin

by Pierre Kory • 2023

A Nobel Prize-winning drug could have ended COVID. The agencies that buried it, from the inside.

4.68

304

🏭 Pharmaceutical Corruption 🦠 Early Covid Treatment 🔇 Scientific Censorship

War on Ivermectin 87%

A Nobel Prize-winning drug could have ended COVID. The agencies that buried it, from the inside.

by Pierre Kory 2023

4.68

304 ratings

🏭 Pharmaceutical Corruption 🦠 Early Covid Treatment 🔇 Scientific Censorship

All in Her Head

by Elizabeth Comen • 2024

Hysteria was dropped from the DSM decades ago. Its logic still shapes how doctors hear women's pain.

4.29

16k+

🏛️ Medical History 📜 Feminist History 🩺 Women'S Health

All in Her Head 87%

Hysteria was dropped from the DSM decades ago. Its logic still shapes how doctors hear women's pain.

by Elizabeth Comen 2024

4.29

16k+ ratings

🏛️ Medical History 📜 Feminist History 🩺 Women'S Health

Strangers to Ourselves

by Rachel Aviv • 2022

A diagnosis does not just name your illness. It shapes it. Five lives inside psychiatry.

4.10

15k+

🏷️ Psychiatric Diagnosis 🌍 Cultural Psychiatry 📖 Medical Narratives

Strangers to Ourselves 87%

A diagnosis does not just name your illness. It shapes it. Five lives inside psychiatry.

by Rachel Aviv 2022

4.10

15k+ ratings

🏷️ Psychiatric Diagnosis 🌍 Cultural Psychiatry 📖 Medical Narratives

The Great Cholesterol Con

by Malcolm Kendrick • 2007

Cholesterol took the fall. Chronic stress and social breakdown are the true causes of heart disease.

4.23

879

🩸 Cholesterol Skepticism 🏛️ Medical Orthodoxy 😰 Stress And Health

The Great Cholesterol Con 87%

Cholesterol took the fall. Chronic stress and social breakdown are the true causes of heart disease.

by Malcolm Kendrick 2007

4.23

879 ratings

🩸 Cholesterol Skepticism 🏛️ Medical Orthodoxy 😰 Stress And Health

The Long Covid Survival Guide

by Fiona Lowenstein • 2022

A patient-built playbook for surviving Long COVID when doctors dismiss you and rest isn't enough.

4.30

156

🩺 Chronic Illness 🫁 Long Covid 🚫 Medical Gaslighting

The Long Covid Survival Guide 87%

A patient-built playbook for surviving Long COVID when doctors dismiss you and rest isn't enough.

by Fiona Lowenstein 2022

4.30

156 ratings

🩺 Chronic Illness 🫁 Long Covid 🚫 Medical Gaslighting

Do No Harm

by Henry Marsh • 2014

A brain surgeon confesses the gamble of every cut, the patients lost, the toll never paid.

4.25

43k+

🧠 Neurosurgery ✍️ Surgical Memoir ⚠️ Medical Mistakes

Do No Harm 87%

A brain surgeon confesses the gamble of every cut, the patients lost, the toll never paid.

by Henry Marsh 2014

4.25

43k+ ratings

🧠 Neurosurgery ✍️ Surgical Memoir ⚠️ Medical Mistakes

Everything in Its Place

by Oliver Sacks • 2019

Oliver Sacks's final essays: what broken brains reveal about music, identity, and being human.

4.14

3k+

🧠 Neurology 🩺 Medical Humanities 📖 Narrative Medicine

Everything in Its Place 87%

Oliver Sacks's final essays: what broken brains reveal about music, identity, and being human.

by Oliver Sacks 2019

4.14

3k+ ratings

🧠 Neurology 🩺 Medical Humanities 📖 Narrative Medicine

I Told You So!

by Matt Kaplan • 2026

Science punishes its boldest discoveries. From handwashing to mRNA, the pattern is fixable.

3.81

589

🔬 History Of Science 👥 Sociology Of Science 🔄 Paradigm Shifts

I Told You So! 87%

Science punishes its boldest discoveries. From handwashing to mRNA, the pattern is fixable.

by Matt Kaplan 2026

3.81

589 ratings

🔬 History Of Science 👥 Sociology Of Science 🔄 Paradigm Shifts

ADHD Does Not Exist

by Richard Saul • 2014

How many ADHD cases are really bad eyesight, poor sleep, or boredom? A clinician argues most.

3.03

505

🏥 Medical Overdiagnosis 🧠 Attention Disorders ⚕️ Critical Psychiatry

ADHD Does Not Exist 87%

How many ADHD cases are really bad eyesight, poor sleep, or boredom? A clinician argues most.

by Richard Saul 2014

3.03

505 ratings

🏥 Medical Overdiagnosis 🧠 Attention Disorders ⚕️ Critical Psychiatry

The Cholesterol Myths

by Uffe Ravnskov • 2000

The cholesterol-heart disease theory was built on cherry-picked data. A doctor dismantles it.

4.29

184

🥚 Cholesterol Skepticism 🍽️ Dietary Advice Debate 💊 Pharma Research Bias

The Cholesterol Myths 87%

The cholesterol-heart disease theory was built on cherry-picked data. A doctor dismantles it.

by Uffe Ravnskov 2000

4.29

184 ratings

🥚 Cholesterol Skepticism 🍽️ Dietary Advice Debate 💊 Pharma Research Bias

Turtles All The Way Down

by Anonymous • 2022

Vaccine safety trials hid adverse events: control groups received vaccines, not placebos.

4.61

785

🧪 Vaccine Skepticism 📋 Public Health Policy 🔬 Research Ethics

Turtles All The Way Down 87%

Vaccine safety trials hid adverse events: control groups received vaccines, not placebos.

by Anonymous 2022

4.61

785 ratings

🧪 Vaccine Skepticism 📋 Public Health Policy 🔬 Research Ethics

Time to Think

by Hannah Barnes • 2023

A children's gender clinic gave puberty blockers, tracked nothing, and silenced its own staff.

4.33

1k+

🏥 Gender Medicine ⚖️ Medical Ethics 🏚️ Institutional Failure

Time to Think 87%

A children's gender clinic gave puberty blockers, tracked nothing, and silenced its own staff.

by Hannah Barnes 2023

4.33

1k+ ratings

🏥 Gender Medicine ⚖️ Medical Ethics 🏚️ Institutional Failure

The Occasional Human Sacrifice

by Carl Elliott • 2024

They expose deadly medical experiments and lose everything. Why they can't stay silent.

3.86

512

🏥 Medical Ethics 📢 Whistleblowing 🏛️ Institutional Betrayal

The Occasional Human Sacrifice 87%

They expose deadly medical experiments and lose everything. Why they can't stay silent.

by Carl Elliott 2024

3.86

512 ratings

🏥 Medical Ethics 📢 Whistleblowing 🏛️ Institutional Betrayal

What Is Madness?

by Darian Leader • 2011

Delusions are self-repair, not error, and madness is a quiet spectrum, not a visible breakdown.

4.14

531

🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis 🌪️ Psychosis 💭 Delusion

What Is Madness? 87%

Delusions are self-repair, not error, and madness is a quiet spectrum, not a visible breakdown.

by Darian Leader 2011

4.14

531 ratings

🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis 🌪️ Psychosis 💭 Delusion

Far From The Tree

by Andrew Solomon • 2012

Your child is deaf, a prodigy, or a criminal. None of it came from you.

4.27

23k+

🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Neurodiversity ♿ Social Model Of Disability

Far From The Tree 87%

Your child is deaf, a prodigy, or a criminal. None of it came from you.

by Andrew Solomon 2012

4.27

23k+ ratings

🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Neurodiversity ♿ Social Model Of Disability

Coping with Psoriasis

by David L. Cram • 2000

The dermatologist's playbook for psoriasis: right doctor, right treatment, stop hiding.

3.60

🩹 Chronic Skin Conditions 🦠 Autoimmune Disorders 🤝 Doctor Patient Partnership

Coping with Psoriasis 87%

The dermatologist's playbook for psoriasis: right doctor, right treatment, stop hiding.

by David L. Cram 2000

3.60

5 ratings

🩹 Chronic Skin Conditions 🦠 Autoimmune Disorders 🤝 Doctor Patient Partnership

Living Well with Hypothyroidism

by Mary J. Shomon • 2000

A normal TSH test can hide a failing thyroid. How to get diagnosed and treated right.

3.91

644

🦋 Thyroid Disorders 🗣️ Patient Advocacy 🌿 Integrative Medicine

Living Well with Hypothyroidism 87%

A normal TSH test can hide a failing thyroid. How to get diagnosed and treated right.

by Mary J. Shomon 2000

3.91

644 ratings

🦋 Thyroid Disorders 🗣️ Patient Advocacy 🌿 Integrative Medicine

Crooked

by Forrest Maready • 2018

Metals in vaccines may be damaging nerves from birth. The evidence is in our faces.

4.38

178

🌿 Alternative Medicine 📜 Medical History 💉 Vaccine Skepticism

Crooked 87%

Metals in vaccines may be damaging nerves from birth. The evidence is in our faces.

by Forrest Maready 2018

4.38

178 ratings

🌿 Alternative Medicine 📜 Medical History 💉 Vaccine Skepticism

Snake Oil Science

by R. Barker Bausell • 2007

The pain relief is real; the needle is a prop. How placebo explains alternative medicine.

4.01

346

🧐 Alternative Medicine Skepticism 💊 Placebo Effect 🔬 Clinical Trial Design

Snake Oil Science 87%

The pain relief is real; the needle is a prop. How placebo explains alternative medicine.

by R. Barker Bausell 2007

4.01

346 ratings

🧐 Alternative Medicine Skepticism 💊 Placebo Effect 🔬 Clinical Trial Design

Mind the Science

by Jonathan N. Stea • 2024

How a multi-trillion-dollar industry exploits your cognitive biases to sell fake mental health cures

4.15

257

🏥 Wellness Critique 🔬 Science Literacy 🚩 Pseudoscience Detection

Mind the Science 87%

How a multi-trillion-dollar industry exploits your cognitive biases to sell fake mental health cures

by Jonathan N. Stea 2024

4.15

257 ratings

🏥 Wellness Critique 🔬 Science Literacy 🚩 Pseudoscience Detection

Bad Advice

by Paul A. Offit • 2018

Why a movie star's health advice spreads faster than doctors', and what to do about it.

4.11

593

🩺 Health Misinformation 🗣️ Science Communication 📰 Media Criticism

Bad Advice 87%

Why a movie star's health advice spreads faster than doctors', and what to do about it.

by Paul A. Offit 2018

4.11

593 ratings

🩺 Health Misinformation 🗣️ Science Communication 📰 Media Criticism

Deep Medicine

by Eric J. Topol • 2019

AI reads scans better than radiologists. The surprise: your doctor finally has time to listen.

4.01

3k+

🤖 Medical Ai 🖥️ Digital Health 🏥 Healthcare Reform

Deep Medicine 87%

AI reads scans better than radiologists. The surprise: your doctor finally has time to listen.

by Eric J. Topol 2019

4.01

3k+ ratings

🤖 Medical Ai 🖥️ Digital Health 🏥 Healthcare Reform

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