How Health Writers Can Stop the Spread of Misinformation

Using lessons I learned after my article on MRIs went viral and received mixed reviews

Zachary Walston, PT, DPT, OCS
The Writing Cooperative
6 min readFeb 25, 2021

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Health misinformation is pervasive and harmful. Roughly 36% of US adults have basic or below basic health literacy levels and up to 96% of individuals use at least 1 unaccredited source when searching health questions online…

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