I think the discussion on people deciding to terminate their own lives suffers from several reasoning flaws. It’s as if because suicide would be the p...
For me philosophy goes wrong when it urges upon us a criterion of rationality, a norm for right action, a project of enquiry, that has been arrived at...
Depression is the psychic equivalent of fever. Fever is a non-specific response to an enormous range of underlying physiological conditions, from the ...
DNA is the major systematic force that makes us who we are. Our genes are the most powerful determiners of our personality, behavior and life outcomes...
Part of Trump's power isn't even about him. It's that people absolutely despise the Bluegeoisie and the destruction they've wrought on society. They d...
I voted against Trump twice. This is not a defense of him. But it’s time to wake up. If you really think Trump and Biden are similar with respect to c...
Pro-Israel types say "If the Arab stopped fighting, there would be peace. If Israel surrendered, they would be slaughtered." That's true, but it doesn...
Look at a behavior that’s just occurred, and let’s make it an atomistic thing like pulling a trigger. Here are the four neurons in your motor cortex t...
The West is experiencing an on-going collapse of moral legitimacy. It has been for many years. Many of our elites use support for Israel as a proxy fo...
Food for thought: For the first time in world history there are more people on the planet over age 65 than under five. That will have profound implica...
A non-neurotoxic version of MDMA that you could take every day like coffee would represent, not only a watershed moment for *human wellbeing*, but als...
Life is, always and by its very nature, pointless. A point is a valued end and since we humans are agents, it makes sense for us to want our acts, eff...
Thanks. A new book by the Harvard Medical historian Anne Harrington, “Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness,” ar...
The management of mental illness is one of the weakest pillars of Western medicine. There is a great deal of politics and special interests wrapped up...
“I tend to believe that, at rock bottom, the pains that drive suicide relate primarily not to the precipitous absence of equanimity or happiness in ad...
I don't much like this Cioran quote. I think it really is amplified apathy; it seems to reify that and approve of it, and I see it differently. Nope, ...
David Benatar’s foundational claim about suffering is probably the most easily disputed. As Geoffrey Miller, a professor of psychology at the Universi...
This is the best summary of the evidence and arguments against biopsychiatry I’ve ever seen. Opposition to the illness model predates the writings of ...
Ketamine May Relieve Depression By Repairing Damaged Brain Circuits https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/11/712295937/ketamine-may-reliev...
As far as I'm concerned, this profession does not receive enough scorn. They abuse the public trust by mass-prescribing drugs they often don't underst...
I have yet to hear from any psychiatrists as to what it is exactly that the profession of psychiatry has to offer, AND what it is, that is unique to p...
Thanks. At the 161st annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in 2008 the APA president Carolyn Rabinowitz told the audience in her open...
Possibly one of the dumbest things the scientific community did was to allow businesses like Pharma to use science as a marketing tool, hide their dat...
It's a grim thought, that doctors are so keen to find a biological basis for depression, but fail to recognize and treat a hormone deficiency (thyroid...
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