Collective intelligence as cure for controversy
Nice to meet you @Denise_Carry, I’m Noemi!
One of the most schizofrenic thing about medical treatments is, in my opinion, controversial advice. I always tell myself that the moment I will have a real condition I will need to ask for many many opinions in order to be satisfied with recommendations. Even with the “healthy food” trends which you remark, it is becoming harder and harder to find truth or specialists with real credentials. If hospital dieticians are in the wrong, then the only way seems to be more access to information, and at some point the more accurate one is filtered in.
I like your approach, and maybe reading about other online communities could be useful to your design: for example another edgeryder in Benin is running awareness raising for cardio vascular diseases on a massive facebook group, but the reason they manage to keep it relatively uncontroversial, as far as I understood, is that: 1) they don’t deal with curative or palliative care, only preventative and 2) they have moderators ensuring a healthy and accurate stream of information. This is their story.
Also, how can we help?