Public Health Disinformation and Cognitive Bias
A doctor in 1847 Vienna noticed something in his own records that his colleagues refused to look at. He was right. They ridiculed him anyway.
The bias that produced that outcome has a name, and it shows up every time a television segment tells you a question is closed. But the same bias gets abused by people who are simply wrong — so here is the test that separates the two.
Part one of a series on how we got here and how we get past it.
Written and produced by Eric Garland Competitive Futures — competitivefutures.com
