EP 89: Designing Intellectual Antibodies | Seema Yasmin

Design Lab with Bon Ku

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.

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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

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Indexed in the Library of Congress: ISSN 2833-2032