James Coyne

A Stunningly Bad Study Claims Social Media Devastates Teen Girls’ Mental Health

A recent study suggests social media has a tremendous impact on teenage girls mental health. The research is flawed as…

3 years ago

Gabor Maté’s Bizarre Ideas on Connections Between Stress and Disease

Gabor Maté’s issues are with evidence, not the West and with public health, not medicine, but who takes him seriously?…

3 years ago

Before Looking at the Results of the Paper on MDMA to Treat PTSD…

So what really is the truth about MDMA and PTSD. Does this research published in Science hold up to scrutiny…

3 years ago

Surprises in the Authorship of a Paper About MDMA to Treat PTSD

The largest number of authors (12) are with MAPS. The for-profit corporation will manage sales for prescription MDMA when it…

3 years ago

The MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD Study. What You’ll Get Wrong

Readers, including even experts, are falling for a hard sell job by venture capitalists who launder their funding of the…

3 years ago

Is the New York Times a Shill for Promoters of Psychedelics?

Evidence that the newspaper is not sufficiently detached from promoters to provide an open-minded but skeptical perspective that readers should…

3 years ago

Suicidology Is Corrupted by Researchers Who Say Things That Aren’t in Their Data

Journals are a big part of the problem of misrepresented or misinterpreted data. They seduce researchers with temptations that they…

4 years ago

Your Brain on Cortisol During COVID-19, Your Brain on #Neurononsense

Judging from Amazon reviews, there really seems to be a mutual admiration society of advice gurus and self-help experts just…

4 years ago

Record Numbers of Californians Die From COVID-19, Surgeon General Promotes Yoga and Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences

When evidence faces off against the power of celebrity status and charisma, the evidence is left lying face down in…

4 years ago

Dutch Researcher Refuses to Disclose How She Got Students to Consent to Experimental Infection

This past year, the Netherlands Board on Research Integrity (LOWI) concluded that a former professor of psychology at Leiden University…

4 years ago

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