Psychotherapy Is Useless
August 3, 2021
For treating borderline personality disorder, doing nothing is cheaper than paying a psychotherapist and likely to be just as successful.
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Darwinism Is in Tension with Human Rights
August 18, 2020
Human rights and Darwinism are contradictions in terms, but academics find ways to pretend both are simpatico.
Freud: Celebrity Fraud
March 22, 2020
Let this be a lesson on misplaced trust in confident-sounding authority figures. This guy was SO WRONG!
A Media Bias Sampler
May 22, 2016
Support for conservatism in secular science media is as rare as a true transitional form in the fossil record.
Of Minds and Men
September 28, 2014
So many psychological theories have come and gone; does anything remain worth clinging to?
Psychotherapy Has a Shrink
August 27, 2013
For better or worse, the practice of psychotherapy is shrinking, reports say.
Chinks in the Scientific Method
December 29, 2011
V & V. That’s shorthand in project design for “validation and verification.” Does the scientific method provide V & V? We are all taught to think that peer review, publication and replication help science to be self-checking, so as to avoid error. Some recent articles show that ain’t necessarily so. It may sound good in theory, but in practice, the ideal doesn’t always match the real.
Psychotherapy: Needs Reboot? or Just Boot?
September 14, 2011
The word “reboot” assumes a prior boot. You can’t reboot something that never booted up in the first place. The American Psychological Association is calling for “rebooting psychotherapy.” Is it even booted up? The press release begins with an admission that questions whether psychotherapy ever got powered on.
Freud’s Out; Who’s Next?
October 15, 2009
Nature is "shocked by the abandon with which he elaborated his theories on the basis of essentially no empirical evidence."