When should we trust the evidence and the experts who interpret it for us?
A new study makes headlines. It shows a diet works, a supplement sharpens memory, a teaching method transforms reading scores or a management practice improves team productivity. So we adjust how we eat, parent or work. We follow the science.
A few months later, another headline overturns the first. Eggs were bad for us, then good again. Red wine protects your heart, or does it? Dark chocolate, low-fat diets, standing desks, masks during a pandemic: Recommendations based on the science keep changing. Eventually, people stop trusting what "studies show."
