Sunday House Call, #654,  May 20, 2018: Dunning-Kruger to the rescue!

Topics today include:

How the Dunning-Kruger Effect (described in the show) can be used againsts desperate people looking for answers.

HPV (gardasil vaccine is a success in reducing cancer and precancer risk.

Cannabis dispensaries in Colorado advising pregnant women with nausea that it is okay to use cannabis despite health warnings for the developing fetus.

 

Your call;s about:

• A non-healing foot rash that continues to spread
• A caller states that a chiropractor says he can cure his dizziness for $5000. Anatomy and neurology evidence says otherwise.
• Alternative treatments for dementia do not hold water and fly in the face of the understanding of how the disease behaves
• Yes, adults can also get the HPV vaccine