Fake news in medicina: un grave deficit di conoscenza storico-medica e paleopatologica alla base del problema

The era in which we live is characterized by the spread of pseudoscience and fallacious and dangerous theories in the field biomedical, an emergency that requires reflections on medical class on the origin of this drift and on which onesstrategies can be employed to contain this phenomenon. In this article, using three examples (vaccinations, cardiovascular disease, cancer), he comes placed the emphasis on the importance of enhancing the study of paleopathology and Darwinian medicine in the medical field, as a fundamental cognitive and communicative tool.