Science Communication: An essential skill for clinicians

While growing up in the digital age, most of us had the opportunity to witness the development of advanced methods and means of communication. We can fondly remember shifting from searching months’ old manuscripts in the libraries to using a smartphone to easily access the latest science in the palm of our hands. This development has not been confined to the scientific manuscripts only. Internet and social media platforms gave an opportunity to any individual interested in any field to develop ideas and share them with a wider audience. This freedom, coupled with the trend of covering medico-scientific news in the electronic and print media has made the general public more concerned about their physical and mental health. However, unfortunately, these developments have not all been very fruitful. In a real world setting where opinions are stronger than the truth, opportunists managed to exploit it to publicize their sociopolitical agenda.1 Advertisement of quackery, opposition of vaccination drives and defaming of safe surgical procedures have risen to prominence over the recent decades.2 These individuals and organized groups generally back their claims with unregulated blogs and fake news websites for spreading pseudoscience.