Billions of dollars are wasted every year chasing the wrong diet, addiction treatment, and medical care for preventable diseases. At fault is not a dearth of scientific or medical knowledge, but rather the prevalence of unproven health conceptions perceived as facts. How do these myths begin and what can we do to create a healthier, more cost effective environment? Whether it’s a myth as innocuous as believing that eating before swimming increases the risk drowning or more serious as avoiding a vaccine for fear of acquiring the disease, health myths might do more harm than perhaps any other si
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