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What was missing from America's pandemic response? According to the internet, a sunshine vitamin, a malaria treatment and a whole lot of horse paste.

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• How Musk Sold MAGA on HCQ 
• Prominent Anti-Vaxxer’s Snake Oil Store Has a Propaganda Outlet
• Nine COVID-19 Myths That Just Won’t Go Away 
• Disinformation and coronavirus     
• COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Discussion on Twitter   
• Pain in the Nation 
• Are patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus at increased risk for COVID-19 infection? 
• Conspiracy theories as barriers to controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. 
• Vaccines vs. vitamins: COVID misinformation roils the worlds of wellness and nutrition  
• A Decisive Verdict on Vitamin D Supplementation  
• Why were Twitter Users Obsessed with Vitamin D during the first year of the pandemic?  
• Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It 
• The Truth about Vitamin D and COVID-19 
• The Strange and Twisted Tale of Hydroxychloroquine 
• Is Ivermectin for Covid-19 Based on Fraudulent Research?   

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While anti-meat advocates and scientists have tried to scare Americans by linking meat to everything from cancer to heart disease, diabetes, and even obesity, research actually shows meat is a nutrient-dense food that can help prevent disease and nutritional deficiencies when you eat it with plenty of plants and vegetables (and not as part of the typical Western diet and lifestyle). That doesn’t mean there isn’t a dark side to eating meat, but there are good scientific and health-minded reasons to eat high-quality, organic, grass-fed, sustainably raised meat as part of an overall healthy diet.

In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I discuss why meat is such a contentious food, whether meat really contributes to global warming, and how to make the most informed decision about purchasing and eating meat. 

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• Commonly held myths about meat (2:49 / 0:48)
• Meat is the single best source of protein for humans (7:29 / 4:46)
• How much saturated fat is “healthy”? (12:57 / 10:45)
• Meat is a nutritional powerhouse (14:35 / 11:50)
• Grass-fed and regenerative meat is better (15:23 / 12:38)
• Most of your plate should still be plants (16:24 / 13:38)
• How you cook meat matters (18:45 / 16:00) 
• Does meat contribute to global warming? (19:17 / 16:30)  
• What to look for when buying meat (22:21 / 19:35)
• What types of meat to eat and avoid (23:25 / 20:39)

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In this “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) episode, Peter and Bob dive deep into all things related to studying studies to help one sift through all the noise to find the signal. They define the various types of studies, how a study progresses from idea to execution, and how to identify study strengths and limitations. They explain how clinical trials work, as well as the potential for bias and common pitfalls to watch out for. They dig into key factors that contribute to the rigor (or lack thereof) of an experiment, and they discuss how to measure effect size, differentiate relative risk from absolute risk, and what it really means when a study is statistically significant. Finally, Peter lays out his personal process when reading through scientific papers.

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We discuss:

• The ever changing landscape of scientific literature [2:15];
  
• The process for a study to progress from idea to design to execution [4:15];
  
• The various types of studies and how they differ [7:30];
  
• The different phases of a clinical trial [19:15];
  
• Observational studies and the potential for bias [26:30];
  
• Experimental studies: Randomization, blinding, and other factors that make or break a study [44:00];
  
• Power, p-values, and statistical significance [56:15];
  
• Measuring effect size: Relative risk vs. absolute risk, hazard ratios, and “Number Needed to Treat” [1:07:45];
  
• How to interpret confidence intervals [1:17:30];
  
• Why a study might be stopped before its completion [1:23:45];
  
• Why only a fraction of studies are ever published and how to combat publication bias [1:31:30];
  
• Why certain journals are more respected than others [1:40:30];
  
• Peter’s process when reading a scientific paper [1:43:45]; and
  
• More.

In this 87th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, we discuss why SARS-CoV2 must be driven to extinction, why the currently available vaccines are unlikely to be able to do so, and why we therefore need additional tools in our toolkit. We address and rebut the recent Quillette article, which contained copious journalistic and scientific errors, and excluded evidence relevant to the questions under discussion. A written response will be published soon as well. Finally, we share an excerpt from A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, chapter 4 (Medicine). 

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Mentioned in this episode:

Berlinski and Deigin, published July 6, 2021 in Quillette: Looking for COVID-19 ‘Miracle Drugs’? We Already Have Them. They’re Called Vaccines https://quillette.com/2021/07/06/looking-for-covid-19-miracle-drugs-we-already-have-them-theyre-called-vaccines/

Goldacre, B., 2014. Bad pharma: how drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients. Macmillan. Carvallo et al 2020. Study of the efficacy and safety of topical ivermectin+ iota-carrageenan in the prophylaxis against COVID-19 in health personnel. J biomed res clin investig, 2(1). https://www.medicalpressopenaccess.com/upload/1605709669_1007.pdf

Bryant, A., Lawrie, T.A., Dowswell, T., Fordham, E.J., Scott, M., Hill, S.R. and Tham, T.C., 2021. Ivermectin for prevention and treatment of COVID-19 infection: a systematic review, meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis to inform clinical guidelines.

People often ask us how we do our research. We're not going to disclose all of our secrets, but we'll give you some tips on how to root out the bad studies from the good ones. Learn all about shady studies and reporting in this classic episode!

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