Deconstructing a Flawed Defense of EMPowerplus Quackery
Alternative medicine proponents defend their pseudoscientific quackery by a number of different means. Sometimes they claim that their alleged “treatment” is actually science-based and put forward...
View ArticleBracket Fungus as Fake “Treatment” for Suicidal Thoughts
Americans spend around 34 billion dollars from their own pockets on alternative medicine every year according to the National Institutes of Health. Almost all of these products are either supported by...
View ArticleAnti-Psychiatry and The Anatomy of a Non-Epidemic
Anti-psychiatry is a pseudoscience that is based on denying the existence of mental illness, rejecting the efficacy of mainstream science-based treatment and demonizing medical doctors who specialize...
View ArticleThe 1942 Kennedy-Kanner Debate in American Journal of Psychiatry
Anti-psychiatry is a pseudoscience that denies the existence of psychiatric conditions, denies the efficacy of psychiatric medications and psychotherapy and considers psychiatrists to be evil and...
View ArticleAstral Parasites, Chakra Balancing and Other “Occult” Nonsense
New Age woo is a convoluted mixture of eastern mysticism and pseudoscientific abuse of modern scientific research, primarily medicine and physics. This includes misunderstandings of crucial concepts...
View ArticleMailbag: Anti-Psychiatry Fallacies and Falsehoods
Anti-psychiatry pseudoscience works just like anti-vaccine crankery: deny or downplay the illnesses, reject the treatments, dismiss mechanisms and spread vile contempt of doctors.
View ArticleHow Anti-Psychiatry Researchers Attack Antidepressants With Faulty Statistics
They use an outdated criteria that would reject psychotherapy and many medications generally.
View ArticleMailbag: Anti-Psychiatry Misinformation About Clinical Significance
An anti-psychiatry activist responded to an article refuting a deceptive anti-psychiatry method without reading the article. Hilarity ensues
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