Mélange des genres, confusion des repères, risques de dérives : des psychiatres et psychologues dénoncent le brouillage des frontières entre savoir scientifique et croyances dans les rayons des librairies. Dans une lettre ouverte, ils interpellent les libraires sur leur responsabilité dans l’accès à une information fiable sur la santé mentale. « Les livres de vulgarisation scientifique se […] The post Les libraires appelés à faire un tri plus rigoureux first appeared on UN...| UNADFI
They promise judgment-free therapy at your fingertips. What they deliver is an algorithmic echo chamber that validates your worst impulses, isolates you from human connection, and even coaches you toward self-destruction The post The AI Therapist Epidemic: When Bots Replace Humans appeared first on Coda Story.| Coda Story
John Rentoul quotes India Knight: Gove’s proposals are, to me, socialist in their intention, which is to equip every child with the sort of education that has traditionally been available to only a very few. How is that wrong? And what do left-leaning academics think they’re doing when they say, “Ooh, no, the children won’t […]| PooterGeek
When it comes to autism treatments, parents new to autism need to work past their fear & confusion, & embrace their critical reasoning skills.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Photoshopping, fraud and circular logic in research| Mike’s blog - Medium
If you separate ABA therapy from reward and punishment, you don't have any ABA left because the entire structure of ABA is based on that.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
“David Geier is the ideal fit to the purposes of RFK Jr. For the only reliably loyal underlings are incompetent ones who know they have no future anywhere else. ” – Smut Clyde| For Better Science
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he would find the cause of autism in five months and “eliminate those exposures.” This is pseudoscience.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
This is a weird one with a capital W. It really is about auras - or should that be aurae? (The plural surely isn't 'aura' as the title seem...| popsciencebooks.blogspot.com
Earlier this year, I wrote about a draft academic paper that had attempted to condemn the new NICE guideline for ME/CFS. As regular readers might recall, the paper had claimed that NICE was guilty of “eight major errors” in its guideline reviewing processes. In my blog post I noted that […] The post The cries for help are getting louder. And that’s a good sign appeared first on The Science Bit.| The Science Bit
Earlier this month, on World ME Awareness Day, I spoke at the Hope 4 ME & Fibro NI conference in Belfast. The event was hosted in the Stormont Parliament Buildings by Alliance Party MLA, Paula Bradshaw. The title of my lecture was Getting it Right: Addressing Myths about the 2021 […] The post Getting it Right: Addressing Myths about the 2021 NICE Guideline for ME/CFS appeared first on The Science Bit.| The Science Bit
“No one comes up here without a damn good reason.” * * * Regular readers will recall that I have previously written about the UK’s new healthcare guidelines for ME/CFS, as published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in 2021. Whereas the old guidance had proposed […] The post Eight (or more) logical fallacies in that paper bemoaning the new NICE guideline for ME/CFS appeared first on The Science Bit.| The Science Bit
Here is a transcript of my recent podcast with the Norwegian ME Association. In the interview, we discuss the medical stigma where post-viral illnesses, such as ME and Long COVID, are falsely characterised as ‘psychological’ due to poorly grounded stereotyping. The discussion touches on how medical opinion has become intertwined […] The post ME, Long Covid, and the History of Medical Stigma (Transcript) appeared first on The Science Bit.| The Science Bit
I recently had the pleasure of talking with the folks at the Norwegian ME Association for their (excellently produced) podcast series. Arising from my new book, we discussed the medical stigma in which an illness is falsely characterised as ‘psychological’ — post-viral conditions such as ME and Long Covid, for […] The post ME, Long Covid, and the History of Medical Stigma (Podcast) appeared first on The Science Bit.| The Science Bit
Historian David Olusoga has been speaking about the ironies of ‘cancel culture’: Olusoga, whose work has explored black Britishness and the legacy of empire and slavery, said that people “feel perfectly comfortable making these comments about me without being able to point to a single reference or footnote in my […] The post ‘Cancel culture’ paranoia and other right-wing hysterics reveal medical conservatism’s true colours appeared first on The Science Bit.| The Science Bit
Let’s have another go, shall we? Last December we wrote about a paper published in Occupational Medicine, in which the following information was presented in a table: The study concerned a group of patients who were scrutinised at two time-points, firstly at “baseline”, and secondly at “follow-up”. That is basically […] The post Authors defend statistical errors, editor sees no evil appeared first on The Science Bit.| The Science Bit
Having spent years casting their critics as angry anti-science activists, some of our favourite panjandrums have now entered Phase 3 in their own year-long campaign of (a) getting angry, (b) engaging in activism, and, yes, (c) throwing science-based medicine under the bus. Here is what the Royal College of Physicians […] The post Self-styled medical leaders defend “neurolinguistic processing” as legit treatment for ME/CFS appeared first on The Science Bit.| The Science Bit
Four years I wrote about the Electric Universe. Whacking a hornet's nest with a stick would have been a better use of my time. The post Just-So Story appeared first on One Universe at a Time.| One Universe at a Time
Explore 2 effects of repeating information - the illusory truth effect & the mere exposure effect. I describe how it works, which can help you utilize it, and notice it in everyday life.| Cognition Today
