Navigating Science and Health Misinformation [Sponsored]

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  Whatever we can do to pull that lever to increase the availability of actual evidence-based health content

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  from a diversity of experts on the topics, I think is kind of the only way forward from here.

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  Americans are consuming more science and health information online than ever before.

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  And at the same time, they're becoming less certain about what information they can trust.

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  I'm Megan Hall for Scientific American Custom Media.

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  There's a growing public distrust in the institutions that pave the way for medical innovation and public health.

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  How is that sentiment getting in the way of innovation?

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  And what's still happening behind the scenes despite the skepticism?

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  Joining me is Morgan McSweeney, known online as Dr. Nock, a science communicator

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  and immunology expert whose videos reach millions of viewers every month across TikTok, Instagram, and X.

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  Thanks for joining me, Dr. Nock.

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  Yeah, pleasure to be here.

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  You have a PhD and it's focused on basically developing medicine to help people with immune issues.

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  So what got you interested in that?

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  Topic.

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  Yeah, I wasn't always interested in it.

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  I started, so when I started in college, actually, going back to before college, my wife,

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  who was at the time my girlfriend, was pre-med.

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  She was like always passionately pre-med.

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  She is now a doctor.

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