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MEDIA

Here’s a sample of what I’ve been up to!

In the news

IN THE NEWS

Is that true? How to spot health misinformation online

(The Guardian)

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Book Review: Mind the Science

(Mental Health Commission of Canada)

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Why you should be more skeptical the next time you read a health news article

(Skeptical Inquirer)

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Why the debunked concept of Blue Monday still resonates, 20 years later

(CTV News)

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Book Review: Surviving Wellness--Mind the Science

(The Skeptic)

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'Loudermilk': Are 12-step programs actually effective?

(AIPT)

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Belle Gibson: A spoonful of vinegar

(Peppermint)

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Book Review: Beware misinformation in mental healthcare

(The Star)

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Book Review: 'Mind the Science' by Dr. Jonathan Stea

(Relate Malayasia)

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Sci-fluencers

(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

(Psychotherapy Networker)

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Book Review: 'Mind the Science' takes on the wellness industry with data and science, but also personal stories

(AIPT)

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There's a lot of misinformation and pseudoscience in the wellness industry, here's how to avoid it

(IFLScience)

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O assaulto da pseudocienca a casa branca

(Publico)

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Mind the science: exposing the harmful grift of pseudoscience

(Relate Malaysia)

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The 5 spookiest wellness trends that will scare you silly this Halloween

(Well+Good)

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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

(Global News)

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Harder Better Faster Stronger

(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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Bite Back with Abbey Sharp: "Do you own research!" And how other dangerous conspiracy wellness tropes are destroying our mental health with Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

(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

(Dean Blundell)

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Dr. Jonathan Stea on how to mind your mental health

(Kobo In Conversation Podcast)

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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

(Lab out Loud)

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Fooling us with pseudoscience

(Dr. SMiT)

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Your brain on misinformation

(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

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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Welcome to advanced trolling: Sealioning (Medium)

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