Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

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🇨🇦 Clinical Psychologist. Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Calgary. Author.

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The Secret’s law of attraction is based on a thinking error called Thought-Action Fusion, which is linked to anxiety disorders and OCD. Example: "If I think about a car accident, it's more likely to happen." Pure nonsense. - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles... - www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Thought-action fusion across anxiety disorder diagnoses: Specificity and treatment effectsncbi.nlm.nih.gov Thought-action fusion (TAF) is a cognitive error that has been frequently investigated within the context of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, evidence suggests that this error may also be...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

A friend of mine once remarked that if some people asserted the earth rotated from East-West and others from West-East, there would always be a few well-meaning people to suggest that the truth probably lay between the extremes or did not rotate at all. - via Paul Meehl

In this study, compared to those with low levels of narcissism, people with high levels of narcissism had greater: - Anti-vaccine attitudes - Neglect of Covid precautions - Covid denial - Covid stress www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When pseudoscientific beliefs become linked to personal identity and a sense of community, they can become very resistant to change.

I’ve been tasked with babysitting this little guy.

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The ability to read a scientific article does not guarantee the ability to understand a scientific article.

Be wary of longevity pseudoscience healthnews.com/news/longevi...

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Sometimes the messages I receive aren’t hate-filled and instead showcase gratitude and powerful stories of harm from alternative medicine pseudoscience.

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Another aspect of #StochasticTerrorism #WordToxicity #PopulationHarms

For those unfamiliar with the “Children’s Health Defense,” it is one of RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine propaganda vehicles, and it does tremendous damage to public health.