IN THE NEWS
Is that true? How to spot health misinformation online
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(Mental Health Commission of Canada)
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Why you should be more skeptical the next time you read a health news article
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Why the debunked concept of Blue Monday still resonates, 20 years later
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Book Review: Surviving Wellness--Mind the Science
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'Loudermilk': Are 12-step programs actually effective?
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Belle Gibson: A spoonful of vinegar
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Book Review: Beware misinformation in mental healthcare
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Book Review: 'Mind the Science' by Dr. Jonathan Stea
(Relate Malayasia)
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(Real Clear Health)
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Mind the Science: Saving Your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry
(Wikipedia)
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Schvitzing at the sauna like a sucker
(The Walrus)
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Is therapy slipping into pseudoscience: Recognize the warning signs
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(AIPT)
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There's a lot of misinformation and pseudoscience in the wellness industry, here's how to avoid it
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O assaulto da pseudocienca a casa branca
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Mind the science: exposing the harmful grift of pseudoscience
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The 5 spookiest wellness trends that will scare you silly this Halloween
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Book Review: Mind the Science: Saving Your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry
(Psychiatric Times)
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A little more conversation with Ben O'Hara-Byrne
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(CBC)
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Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge
(Global News)
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Saving your mental health from the wellness industry
(People First Radio)
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TikTok full of snake oil salespeople and medical misinfo
(Boing Boing)
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Should we be more skeptical about longevity?
(HealthNews)
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A gym for your feelings? Emotional support now comes with a membership fee (Los Angeles Times)
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Jonathan Stea: Pseudoscience and the grifters of health and wellness (Whole Food Living)
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Why eating french fries could ruin your life (New York Post)
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The movement against psychiatry (VICE)
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Wonderland of wellbeing promises (Hospitality Inside)
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Elon Musk turns on 'irrational' Tucker Carlson (Mediaite)
Why the cult of wellness should trouble us (The Globe and Mail)
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From sex to alcohol, doctor influencers bust myths, face threats (India Today)
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Psychologists warn about the dangers of rising psychological pseudoscience (News Medical)
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How Kennedy family reacted to RFK Jr.'s 2024 announcement (Newsweek)
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A rise In psychological pseudoscience Is putting people At risk (IFLScience)
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Experts say bipolar disorder didn't cause Kanye West's hate (Gizmodo)
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Social media is lying to you about antidepressants (Lifehacker)
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The dangerous myths sold by the conspiritualists (Coda)
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Psychologists say mental health advice shared on social media is often misleading (Medical News Today)
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Vaccine skeptics co-opt the AIDS crisis (Coda)
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The dangerous hype around psychedelics as a treatment for mental illness (The Globe and Mail)
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Five tips to avoid COVID-19 misinformation online (UCalgary)
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What's it like to tell your kids you love weed (VICE)
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Addictions experts sound in on common claims about cannabis use (CBC)
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How to avoid bad habits during social distancing and isolation (CBC)
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What alternative medicine does well, and when it lies
(Doctor Mike)
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Is the multi-trillion dollar wellness industry making us sick?
(The Ben Mulroney Show)
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(Abbey Sharp)
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Conspirituality Podcast: The dangers of Dr. Google
(Derek Beres, Julian Walker, Matthew Remski)
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Jargon or gobbledygook? Dr. Jonathan Stea on evidence-based medicine over wellness misinformation
(Centre for Inquiry Canada)
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Longevity industry exploits your fear of aging
(HealthNews)
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The Dean Blundell Show: Mind the Science
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Dr. Jonathan Stea on how to mind your mental health
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On Pseudoscience with Dr. Jonathan Stea
(Long Covid Advocacy)
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Mind the Science (not the hype with Dr. Jonathan Stea
(Relate Malaysia, Dr. Chua Sook Ning)
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We're losing the information war
(Scott Carney)
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Addressing mental health myths and misinformation on social media with Dr. Stea
(Dr. Amir Khan)
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Unmasking pseudoscience in the wellness industry
(Dr. Bradley Block)
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Fighting mental health misinformation and wellness pseudoscience
(Christy Harrison)
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Fighting wellness scams with science
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(Dr. SMiT)
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(The Brain Docs)
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The dangers and perils of pseudoscience: How to mind the science
(Dr. Doriana Parkin)
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On Psych: Presented by the Ontario Psychological Association: Mind the Science
(Dr. Jonathan Douglas)
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How to debunk psychiatric misinformation
(Dr. Ahmad Khan)
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The truth serum: Exposing pseudoscience in mental health
(Christina Crowe)
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Catalyst 360: Health, wellness, and performance: Battling pseudoscience
(Dr. Brad Cooper)
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The Skeptic Zone Podcast: Mind the Science
(Adrienne Hill)
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The Thinking Atheist: Mind the science: How the wellness industry is scamming us
(Seth Andrews)
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Scientology, mental health, and the anti-psychiatry movement
(Apostate Alex)
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Cult-y behavior in health pseudoscience
(Chris Shelton)
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Mind Full: Saving your mental health from the wellness industry
(Canadian Psychological Association)
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The Science Pawdcast: Mental health myths
(Jason Zackowski)
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Canadian doctor battles the anti-science wellness industry (Markham Hislop)
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Snake oil for the soul: Exposing mental health "wellness" grift (Dr. Jess Steier)
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Debunking misinformation: From Goop to anti-psychiatry (Dr. Sulman Aziz Mirza)
Wellness: Fact vs. Fiction: Demystifying mental health myths (Dr. Danielle Belardo)
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PsychoDrama: Addiction, science communication, and Twitter trolls (Dr. Kathryn Gordon)
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SGEM XTRA: She blinded me with science--not pseudoscience (Dr. Ken Milne)
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Dr. Drew: Love cannabis? (Dr. Drew Pinksy)
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PODCASTS
WRITING
The unsavory history of the wellness industry (Big Think)
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The multi-trillion dollar wellness industry is making us sick: Alternative medicine has become a scrutiny-free wonderland for anything and everything (The Walrus)
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In the wellness industry, your mental health is for sale (Globe and Mail)
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Mental health misinformation and pseudoscience are rampant (Psychology Today)
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A new resource for fighting vaccine misinformation (Scientific American)
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When promoting knowledge makes you a target (Scientific American)
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Is there really a difference between drug addiction and drug dependence? (Scientific American)
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Is cannabis good or bad for mental health? (Scientific American)
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Why do people fall for fake science news? (Psychology Today)
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3 ways that pseudoscientific therapies can be harmful (Psychology Today)
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Gaps in scientific knowledge doesn’t justify pseudoscience (Psychology Today)
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It’s not anti-women to fight against pseudoscientific health ideology (Policy Options)
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Let’s clear up some misconceptions about cannabis addiction. First off: yes, it’s real (CBC)
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Should you get the COVID-19 vaccine? Yes, but take your word for it, not mine (Toronto Star)
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How Canadians can use social media to help debunk Covid-19 misinformation (National Post)
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There’s no proof the cannabis compound CBD cures opioid addiction (Global News)
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Why anti-psychiatry now fails and harms (MedPage Today)
Addressing the opioid crisis during COVID-19 (MedPage Today)
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Cannabis addiction is not heroin addiction: That doesn't make it any less real (Slate)
The psychology of online trolling (Medium)
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