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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

@jonathanstea.bsky.social

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Clinical Psychologist. Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Calgary. Author. New book: www.JonathanStea.com Newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathanstea University of Calgary: https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/jonathan-n-stea

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As a clinical psychologist, I’ve worked in a hospital setting as a full-time job for nearly 15 years helping people who experience severe addiction, including opioid use disorders.

It’s this kind of alternative medicine rhetoric that gets people killed:

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Carl's right.

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πŸ˜†

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We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology.

And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.

- Carl Sagan

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Ouch

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But β€œgrab β€˜em my the pussy” on a hot mic was just boy talk?

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Anti-science movements are threats to patient care and public health.

They reject mainstream scientific views and methods and replace them with pseudoscientific propaganda for nefarious gains.

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πŸ™Œ

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A conspiracy theorist dies and goes to heaven.

God says, β€œI’ll tell you anything you want to know.”

β€œAt last! Who shot JFK?”

God says, β€œOswald, acting alone.”

Conspiracy theorist says, β€œShit. This goes even higher than I thought…”

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Racism worsens health outcomes.

MAGA is MAHA.

Where are the wellness and MAHA influencers denouncing this bigotry that makes America sicker?

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RFK Jr makes unfounded claim the keto diet can β€˜cure’ schizophrenia RFK Jr’s endorsement of the keto diet for treating mental illnesses comes after he declared an end to the β€˜war on protein’ and β€˜war on saturated fats’ in January

www.aol.com/news/rfk-jr-...

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Please do not use RFK Jr. as a source of medical information.

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He sleeps on a cloud so yes....

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Iggy asks whatever do you mean?

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So true. So true.

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😁

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Owners of dogs will have noticed that if you provide them with food/shelter/affection, they will think you are God.

Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that if you provide them with food/shelter/affection, they draw the conclusion that they are Gods.

- C. Hitchens

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πŸ₯΄

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*This message was brought to you by 1930s Germany*

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One hallmark of pseudoscience is an emphasis on confirmation rather than refutation.

Scientists are constantly and consistently trying to prove themselves wrong, whereas those who practice pseudoscience are more concerned with proving themselves right.

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Now seems a good time to point out that Erin Elizabeth has repeatedly claimed I’m connected to Jeffrey Epstein.

The funny thing is that the Epstein files mention her circleβ€”RFK Jr. and Joseph Mercolaβ€”but my name? Absent.

Fancy that. 😊

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One hallmark of pseudoscience is an emphasis on confirmation rather than refutation.

Scientists are constantly and consistently trying to prove themselves wrong, whereas those who practice pseudoscience are more concerned with proving themselves right.

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I love you Dr. Mike, this is so gooddddddd 🀣

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Defending MAHA and its pseudoscience is an exercise in motivated reasoning and mental gymnastics, not scientific thinking.

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Sneaking pseudoscience into health care.
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The plural of anecdote is misinformation.

Problems with anecdotal medical evidence:

- Regression to mean
- Self-limiting illnesses
- Multiple treatments
- Reporting bias
- Confirmation bias
- Vague outcome measures
- Placebo
- Memory fallibility

www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/writ...

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🎯

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I sometimes wonder what would happen if I ever decided to use all that I've learned debunking quackery for evil, as in inventing new forms of quackery that will appeal to MAHA. Fortunately, I've never actually done it and, hopefully, never will.

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