Alcohol Isn’t a Health Food
More likely the hope is to increase awareness of the risks, and encourage drinkers to limit consumption.
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The Inoculation Effect
Our goal is to reframe the discussion in a way that supports rather than undermines change.
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Fighting Pseudoscience: Critical Thinking
We need the knowledge and skill to evaluate claims of effectiveness as medical treatments– for instance, to determine whether the research that supports that claim is solid, or if it’s unreliable.
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Celebrity Testimonials
It’s an illness that at different times seems to respond to everything and nothing. As in ‘everything works for someone, and nothing works for everyone.’
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Psychonautics
It’s the sort of evidence that convinced authorities to greatly expand access to opioids for chronic pain patients.
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Understanding Research: Meta-analysis
If Ginormous Study #1 happens to be flawed methodologically, those errors will carry right over into the meta-analysis process.
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“Uninformed” versus “Misinformed”
It’s often true that the folks who are technically most misinformed on an issue have the greatest degree of confidence in the rightness of their beliefs.
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Research Blues: Correlation versus Causation
Problem is, we in the general public don’t like being made to wait. We want answers, and we want them to be final.
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A Brief Rant About the Internet
The idea is to collect hits, and that happened the moment you clicked the link. Ad revenue is what it’s all about. The more clicks, the more they can charge.
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How Come Outcomes?
Yet because the information is compiled by an outside firm, the program can trumpet ‘independently verified’ outcomes.
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Cross Addiction: Is it a Myth?
There are many concepts in clinical psychology that are not science-based, but are nonetheless still of use in therapy.
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The Quick Change Artists
Maybe it’s just one of those things that alcoholics and addicts feel they have to try before they settle down to face the challenges of actual recovery– which turns out not to be all that frickin’ easy.
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