Josh Richardson

I wish I could meme harder.

Classic Vienna. -- The "Narrenturm" (Tower of Fools). The oldest known institution in continental Europe for treating psychiatric patients. Now part of the Natural History Museum. #photography #Vienna #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria

YouTube video by Philosophy of Psychiatric Diagnoses Over-diagnosis, right-wing narratives, anti-psychiatry and alternatives to autism

New podcast episode, Over-diagnosis, right-wing narratives, anti-psychiatry and alternatives to autism

Interesting! Anywhere this is documented?

“The clinical and scientific reality is that we now exist in a landscape of nosological pluralism[.]” - Awais Aftab

I’m not so hot either. Aiming at improvement!

Hahaha - that is a good question! Perhaps I’m melancholy for a non-existent time! I’m also sorta supposing that they heyday of Neo-Kantinism was maybe that period.

This morning I'm thinking about (problems with him aside) how we've become poor readers of Kant - if we've ever read him at all.

Very interesting considering Marcuse’s criticisms of analytic philosophy and logic. Some of my best educational experiences with him. Still email with him now and again. After 25 years!

They’re both great! (His step father was Marcuse.)

My logic professor’s dad.

I will from now on be referring to hard sciences ie natural sciences like biology and chemistry solely as the “macho sciences” and all soft sciences ie psychology, sociology etc. as “wimpy sciences.” I will not be taking any questions.

Postmodern conservatism is very real

Yes it’s almost like what Gerd Gigerenzer suggests that we need to provide better heuristics for people. Interesting stuff to think about. Thanks!

Honest question: do you think empirical evidence is persuasive to most of those prone to supernatural reasoning?

Rights over regulation? The moral case against legalised snake oil - The Skeptic Whenever regulating pseudoscience is raised, we can expect to hear the same objections – none of which justifies deceiving vulnerable people.

Snake oil is legal... but it shouldn't be.

This is an excellently argued piece by @etvpod.bsky.social for The Skeptic magazine.

www.skeptic.org.uk/2026/03/righ...

That’s a helluva opening line.

The Youth Are Getting Restless (1990) - YouTube

Still the best o’ the brains 🧠 IMO: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

This morning I’m thinking about how laypeople, scientists, and philosophers cope with uncertainty.

The Chair Company

I was not prepared for the Keeping Up Appearances / Inspector Morse crossover. Bucket vs. Morse.

7 YEARS AFTER EMBASSY SEIZURE, IRAN STILL PRINTS U.S SECRETS (Published 1986)

And the Iranian public knew much more even before the Americans, because they had tediously reconstructed many of the shredded secret documents! www.nytimes.com/1986/07/10/w...

“The clinical and scientific reality is that we now exist in a landscape of nosological pluralism[.]”

YouTube video by CRITERION “I Love Duvall”: Sidney Lumet Watches NETWORK

Lumet on NETWORK:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3zs...

“I was, at that time, committed to a wing of the Zionist movement […] that was opposed to a Jewish state […] and was concerned with the possibility of Arab-Jewish co-operation in a framework of co-operative socialist institutions.” - Chomsky in interview w/ Eleanor Wachtel for CBC

GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: “Young Frankenstein” with David Fear Podcast Episode · One Heat Minute Productions · March 1 · 1h 9m

My favourite film podcast w/ @jasondashbailey.com & @fifthcolumnfilms.bsky.social on one of my all-time favourite films: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/o...

THE SPECIALIST

Adolf EICHMANN The Accused

Is this how you came to be called

"the specialist"?

The Specialist (1999) Eyal Sivan

JÜRGEN HABERMAS ALSO A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY VOLUME III RATIONAL FREEDOM. TRACES OF THE DISCOURSE ON FAITH AND KNOWLEDGE Translated by Ciaran Cronin

Excellent ending.

Things are getting slightly out of hand over here.

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