By Thorrun Govind

Medicine is built on evidence. We test, we challenge, we revise. It’s a slow process, but it works. And when the facts change, we change with them.

That is why, just this year, scientists announced the first treatment shown to slow Huntington’s disease- a cruel, inherited condition long thought untreatable. It is proof that rigorous science though painstaking, delivers hope where none existed before.

That foundation is under attack. Not from a lack of science, but from a flood of misinformation, and sometimes deliberate disinformation, online.

There’s an old saying: “A lie can travel halfway around the world........

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