How Should We Address Our Medical Illiteracy?

Exploring different "tiers" of research quality, to get at the crux of our human concerns

Apr 16, 2024

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In the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, when a vaccine first seemed to be within reach, a startling discovery about our general levels of medical literacy also made itself known: the average citizen didn’t seem to know as much about how healthcare and scientific research works as we might once have vaguely assumed we all did.

It wasn’t just that many peo…

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