EP 89: Designing Intellectual Antibodies | Seema Yasmin

Can we design intellectual antibodies? How does misinformation
spread like a virus? Why do our brains cling to biases? Dr. Seema
Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, Pulitzer prize
finalist, medical doctor and Stanford and UCLA professor as well as
a CEO coach working with Corporate Edge. Dr. Yasmin served as a
disease detective in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the CDC,
as a science reporter for The Dallas Morning News and medical
analyst for CNN. The author of five books, her reporting appears in
The New York Times, Rolling Stone, WIRED, Scientific American, and
on the BBC, NBC and other news networks. Dr. Yasmin’s unique
combination of expertise as a dually-trained physician and medical
journalist have been called upon by the Vatican, the Presidential
Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and the White House.
Yasmin is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative,
clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University,
and visiting professor of crisis communication at UCLA’s Anderson
School of Management. She trained in journalism at the University
of Toronto and in medicine at the University of Cambridge. Her
newest book, What the Fact?! is a navigation guide for teens (and
adults!) on how to survive the murky worlds of misinformation and
disinformation and become savvy consumers of information. Episode
Mentions: Seema’s Website: https://seemayasmin.com/ Website:
Stanford Health Communication Initiative Seema’s New Book: What the
Fact!? (Book drops on Sept 20th, 2022) Article: Must-read books
coming out in Sept 2022 Article: Doctors are spreading COVID
disinformation. California needs to do something about it Follow
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