2 Docs Talk: The podcast about healthcare, the science of medicine and everything in between.
2 Docs Talk: The podcast about healthcare, the science of medicine and everything in between.
Kendall Britt, MD and Amy Rogers, MD
Episode 131: The Anti-Vax Movement and the Dunning-Kruger Effect
10 minutes Posted Dec 10, 2019 at 8:00 am.
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With the continued persistence of the modern anti-vaccination movement, even with the studies that originated it debunked, we have to ask some difficult questions about what we know and how we reach people with accurate medical evidence. 

The Dunning-Kruger effect is the wrench in the works when we ask those questions. How does it, and our modern love of celebrity, stand in our way?

Today, 2 Docs Talk about those questions and ponder some solutions.