by Primrose Freestone, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain There is a cognitive bias called “the curse of knowledge” (sometimes also called “the curse of expertise”). It happens when you incorrectly assume that everyone knows as much as you do on a given topic. As a clinical microbiologist, I assumed everyone knew that it was a...
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New study finds ‘kissing disease’ virus is leading cause of multiple sclerosis
By AFP15 January 2022, 6:54 pm This image provided by US Department of Health and Human Services shows an illustration of the outer coating of the Epstein-Barr virus. (US Department of Health and Human Services via AP) WASHINGTON — Multiple sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease that has no cure and affects some 2.8 million people in the...