Tag: errors

The United States was among the biggest backers of the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine, but a series of blunders by the company eroded American authorities’ confidence and have delayed rollout in the world’s hardest-hit country. The British-Swedish drugmaker was on the backfoot Tuesday, vowing to release more data “within 48 hours” after the US National Institute

Why do some of our choices appear to be driven by a desire to explore the unknown? An Inserm team from École Normale Supérieure led by Valentin Wyart has shown that most of these choices are not motivated by curiosity, but by errors caused by the brain mechanisms implicated in evaluating our options. These findings

YouTube fueling prostate myths: 77% of 150 most watched videos ‘have factual errors’ There are well over half a million videos about prostate cancer on YouTube  More than 77 percent of the videos included incorrect or biased information about the disease About half of the videos did not describe the recommended ‘shared decision-making’ doctors and