Blooming Wellness
Dr. Eek's Health & Wellness Blog
Are poinsettias poisonous? Every December, poinsettias reappear and so does the panic. Someone gifts a beautiful red plant, and suddenly the room fills with warnings about poisoned pets, sick kids, and emergency vet visits. I grew up in a house with lots of animals. Anytime someone brought home a poinsettia for the holidays, my mom …
What is an anecdote? What’s the plural of anecdote? A popular doctor on X (Twitter) posted that the plural of anecdote is misinformation. I guess the doctor thought it was clever…it got many likes and reposted several times, but in my head, it didn’t make sense. What annoyed me was its blatant inaccuracy. The plural …
The War on Misinformation and the Elephants on the Battlfield: View are totally my own. In the health comms section of my blog, you’ll notice that I write a lot about the war on misinformation and have been doing so since the beginning of the pandemic. Fueled by the Election of 2016 and COVID-19, there’s …
Misinformation or Truth: My Cheat Sheet. As mentioned in several previous posts, I think trying to control all of the information a person is/isn’t exposed to is an expensive and losing battle. Between real life and the digital landscape, the opportunities for exposure are endless. No matter what you do, people will one day find …
Even if you reside under a rock, you’ve heard about the problem of online misinformation. While discussions around online misinformation went mainstream during the 2016 presidential election, they exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic. At least for scientific misinformation, which is a reminder that we now have categories of misinformation…political, scientific, health…as if there is a …
By Dr. Eeks This is my hypothesis, not anyone’s I work for. It’s also my dog’s hypothesis, and so you know, he’s quite bright. A recent poll conducted among healthcare workers showed that 72% of them state misinformation negatively impacts patients’ decisions about the vaccine, and 71% of them said it negatively impacts their decisions …
By: Dr. Eeks The Art of the Napkin Risk-Benefit Analysis for COVID and the War on Misinformation: “Dear Bo, Once again, they are trying to get people vaccinated by calling them dumbf*cks. I’ll be here all winter.” Imagine if we were writing letters home from our various perspectives of the war on misinformation? What would …
Misinformation vs Dissent is a topic I’ve been interested in throughout this pandemic. Of course this topic extends to topics beyond COVID-19, but for my line of work, its relation to the pandemic and what/how information is relayed to the public is of most interest to me. If you are new to my opinions on …
On The Battlefield of Misinformers, Dissenters & Staunch Stakeholders of the Almighty Narrative By: Dr. Eeks Throughout the pandemic, I’ve worked as a public health analyst and have been part of several scientific communication initiatives dealing with how and what information is relayed to a particular audience. These include tasks like explaining how mRNA or …
