Why Even Smart People Fall for Bad Science
Our natural biases make us focus on scary news, but that doesn’t mean you have to live in fear
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5 min readJul 10, 2020
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We all do it about a hundred times a day: Open our preferred news app; read a terrifying headline about scary new health research; experience that now-familiar anxiety level spike. Consume too much media and it can feel like the world…