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jonathanstea.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Clinical Psychologist. Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Calgary. Author. Mind the Science Newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathanstea New book: www.JonathanStea.com
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submitted 35 minutes ago • 7 comments

💙📚We have some exciting news for #longcovidawareness month 🔊The #pedanticzebra book club pod is starting! We will be investigating pseudoscience with @jonathanstea.bsky.social Join us live on Friday 7th March at 7pm GMT Recording will be available #booksky #bookclub

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Anecdotal evidence: My collegue at work knows this guy who has a cousin who‘s friend once met a woman that told him on a bus trip that she heard about a man who has an uncle who lives next door to a family that has a daughter who‘s boyfriend was cured from cancer by homeopathy.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The misuse of anecdotal evidence is the heart of pseudoscience and the currency of alternative medicine.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I’ve been blocked by the CCHR—a front group for the cult of Scientology—and so now I need to find another way to meet Lord Xenu.

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The road to hell is paved with pseudoscience—constructed by personal anecdotes, conspiracy theories, and narcissism.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I wrote this book to empower people to take their mental health into their own hands. I wanted to teach the language of pseudoscientific grift so that you know when it’s spoken. This is a kind of mental health support I’m unable to provide in the role of clinician.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Also scientists today: “No, we’re not using federal funds to buy luxury goods. Yes, we have already studied that. Yes, in placebo-controlled, double-blinded studies. You can find them yourself—just use google. No, I’m not just saying that.”

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

90s scientists: “We cloned a sheep! We landed a robot on mars!” Scientists today: “For the last time, the earth is round.” - Ben Rosen

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

@jonathanstea.bsky.social In case you haven't seen this yet.

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Experts know what they don’t know. Fake experts don’t even know what they think they know.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

🧪 #resistrfk

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

There’s something hilariously absurd about social media that leads some people to deceive themselves into believing that their brains have suddenly downloaded the expertise that is painstakingly acquired over countless years of training/experience in a highly specialized domain.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Happy to help spread the word on @jonathanstea.bsky.social’s excellent book, Mind the Science, in my column for The Star newspaper. If you’ve yet to pick up a copy of the book, I can’t recommend it enough. Review to follow soon!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Important reading.

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There's a sucker born every minute. But it can be much more dangerous than that. And when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic—however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney. - Carl Sagan

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

*34 felony charges likes this post*

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👇

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Even if promoters of pseudoscience are not intentionally trying to con you, it’s entirely possible that they have conned themselves. - Barry L. Beyerstein

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Homeopathy is more effective the less it’s used.

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

10/10 mum.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

People, stop and read this! The laugh we need right now! 🤣🤣💙

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

My mother doesn’t always try to fight my battles, but when she does, it’s kind of funny.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

🤷🏻‍♂️

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

I believe the new HHS leadership will act on antipsychiatry beliefs, and I’m worried for current patients.

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🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

It’s scary times for those who value patient care and public health, including patients.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

It’s easy to pontificate about the nature and treatment of mental illness from an armchair on social media without regard for the scientific literature or the clinical realities. Anti-psychiatry propaganda is truly more harmful than it is absurd.

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

Louder for the people in the back.

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It’s messages like these that make me regret accepting the large brown sack of Big Pharma cash that is delivered to my porch every month.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

A new career path @jonathanstea.bsky.social?

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

You can’t be empowered about your health decisions if you rely on misinformation, pseudoscientific propaganda, and conspiracies.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments