How can we conceptualize what news is? What’s the significance of news in societal development? Did people always perceive the news as an undeniable truth? Why are people so susceptible to falling for fake news these days? What are some of the main strategies to protect yourself from misinformation?

In this episode, experts help us to understand these and other issues related to informational and communicational phenomena that can be used not only to provide us with knowledge but to distort and manipulate our perception of reality.

What is and what does Harm Reduction mean? What is the application of this paradigm to the problem of smoking? What are your fundamentals, practices, and challenges?

In this introductory episode in a synthetic and at the same time condensed way, we seek to explain these and other issues, with the support of two of the most respected experts on the subject: Prof. Gerry Stimson and Dr. Derek Yach.