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Podcast: The Very Dental Podcast Network
Episode: Very Dental: Dentists are bad with Dr. Paul Springs
Description: Dr. Paul Springs joins Alan again to talk about journalism, Matt Yglesias and the Gell-Mann effect. Matt Yglesias wrote an article called "Dentists are bad" on his Substack. Instead of talking about some real "bad" things in our profession, he went straight to the lowest common denominator. Paul and Al talk about how journalism typically talks about dentistry and maybe how they could be more interesting and ask better questions. Matt thinks oral health is important Matt has a very limited understanding about dental disease in our population Matt thinks that regulation that allows dental hygienists t...