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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

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🇨🇦 Clinical Psychologist. Adjunct Assistant Professor @UCalgary. Movement: @ScienceUpFirst. Bylines: @Sciam, @CBCNews, @Slate, @Globalnews, @PsychToday et al

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Energy healing is among the griftiest pseudoscientific treatments in alternative medicine.

Energy healing is among the griftiest pseudoscientific treatments in alternative medicine.

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You’re not going to believe what they hide inside our face masks.

You’re not going to believe what they hide inside our face masks.

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He wants you to think "experts" (people with credentials or authority) and scientific evidence/consensus are the same thing. They are not. An individual expert = a person. Scientific consensus = the accumulated weight of evidence across many independent experts and scientific studies. He's intentionally blurring this distinction, so he can frame distrust of evidence-based consensus as merely "questioning experts" and pretend his chosen "experts" are equivalent to scientific consensus. They are not. - Dr. Jessica Knurick

He wants you to think "experts" (people with credentials or authority) and scientific evidence/consensus are the same thing. They are not. An individual expert = a person. Scientific consensus = the accumulated weight of evidence across many independent experts and scientific studies. He's intentionally blurring this distinction, so he can frame distrust of evidence-based consensus as merely "questioning experts" and pretend his chosen "experts" are equivalent to scientific consensus. They are not. - Dr. Jessica Knurick

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When you’ve blocked someone for 5 years but their hobby is to collect your tweets everyday like you’re their human Advent calendar.🎄

When you’ve blocked someone for 5 years but their hobby is to collect your tweets everyday like you’re their human Advent calendar.🎄

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This is what conspiracy mentality sounds like…

This is what conspiracy mentality sounds like…

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3,564,708 views • 3 years ago

An announcement from Noah Wyle and the CDC:

An announcement from Noah Wyle and the CDC:

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423,337 views • 6 months ago

What it’s like for a food scientist to hear misinformation about raw milk:

What it’s like for a food scientist to hear misinformation about raw milk:

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1,198,876 views • 1 year ago

Today is World Homeopathy Day. In its honor, let’s remember that time The Amazing James Randi overdosed on homeopathy and lived to tell about it.

Today is World Homeopathy Day. In its honor, let’s remember that time The Amazing James Randi overdosed on homeopathy and lived to tell about it.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

179,856 views • 3 months ago

Today is World Homeopathy Day. In its honor, let’s remember that time The Amazing James Randi overdosed on homeopathy and lived to tell about it.

Today is World Homeopathy Day. In its honor, let’s remember that time The Amazing James Randi overdosed on homeopathy and lived to tell about it.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

648,292 views • 2 years ago

Today is World Homeopathy Day. In its honor, let’s remember that time The Amazing James Randi overdosed on homeopathy and lived to tell about it.

Today is World Homeopathy Day. In its honor, let’s remember that time The Amazing James Randi overdosed on homeopathy and lived to tell about it.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

284,241 views • 1 year ago

Your pee is not a vaccine.

Your pee is not a vaccine.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

564,452 views • 3 years ago

Physicians who prescribe ivermectin for Covid-19.

Physicians who prescribe ivermectin for Covid-19.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

557,262 views • 3 years ago

Your first ever distance reiki session for clearing your sinuses. You’re welcome. That’ll be $300.

Your first ever distance reiki session for clearing your sinuses. You’re welcome. That’ll be $300.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

407,941 views • 3 years ago

MAHA leadership needs to go through ethics training for the responsible conduct of research. And while they’re there, maybe also research methods, statistics, and science literacy 101. - Dr. Jessica Knurick

MAHA leadership needs to go through ethics training for the responsible conduct of research. And while they’re there, maybe also research methods, statistics, and science literacy 101. - Dr. Jessica Knurick

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86,252 views • 7 months ago

"Treating the root cause" is a trope abused in alternative/integrative/functional medicine to sow distrust in mainstream medicine. Ironically, a scientifically implausible “root cause” is often treated with pseudoscientific approaches (e.g., spine subluxations for all diseases; past life regressions for PTSD; balancing energy for back pain, etc.). H/t Dr. Glaucomflecken

"Treating the root cause" is a trope abused in alternative/integrative/functional medicine to sow distrust in mainstream medicine. Ironically, a scientifically implausible “root cause” is often treated with pseudoscientific approaches (e.g., spine subluxations for all diseases; past life regressions for PTSD; balancing energy for back pain, etc.). H/t Dr. Glaucomflecken

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

115,616 views • 11 months ago

No one: Matt Walsh: Societally, the effects of cigarettes are actually pretty positive.

No one: Matt Walsh: Societally, the effects of cigarettes are actually pretty positive.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

247,203 views • 2 years ago

Defending MAHA and its pseudoscience is an exercise in motivated reasoning and mental gymnastics, not scientific thinking.

Defending MAHA and its pseudoscience is an exercise in motivated reasoning and mental gymnastics, not scientific thinking.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

55,948 views • 5 months ago

RFK Jr and Statistics:

RFK Jr and Statistics:

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122,257 views • 1 year ago

PhD in Virology from The University of Facebook By Cormac Moore

PhD in Virology from The University of Facebook By Cormac Moore

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247,357 views • 2 years ago

Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS? …And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people? Oh wait…🥴

Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS? …And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people? Oh wait…🥴

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

103,315 views • 1 year ago

In science, you don’t “do the studies to make the proof.” But that’s exactly how RFK Jr. operates. We’ve seen it throughout his career. And we saw it clearly last May when HHS released the MAHA report with 7 hallucinated citations. The administration tried to downplay it and pretend it was no big deal. Karoline Leavitt called them “formatting issues,” but they weren’t formatting issues. They were AI-generated, hallucinated citations (references that looked real but didn’t exist). That quite literally means the report started with a conclusion and then built a case and a narrative around that conclusion, which would be a failing grade in any undergraduate research course. And that’s the pattern we keep seeing from RFK Jr. where he starts with what he wants to be true, then looks for “proof” to back it up. That’s not how science works. That’s how ideology works. And it’s exactly why the vast majority of the scientific community are sounding the alarm. - Dr. Jessica Knurick

In science, you don’t “do the studies to make the proof.” But that’s exactly how RFK Jr. operates. We’ve seen it throughout his career. And we saw it clearly last May when HHS released the MAHA report with 7 hallucinated citations. The administration tried to downplay it and pretend it was no big deal. Karoline Leavitt called them “formatting issues,” but they weren’t formatting issues. They were AI-generated, hallucinated citations (references that looked real but didn’t exist). That quite literally means the report started with a conclusion and then built a case and a narrative around that conclusion, which would be a failing grade in any undergraduate research course. And that’s the pattern we keep seeing from RFK Jr. where he starts with what he wants to be true, then looks for “proof” to back it up. That’s not how science works. That’s how ideology works. And it’s exactly why the vast majority of the scientific community are sounding the alarm. - Dr. Jessica Knurick

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

68,840 views • 9 months ago

Chiropractic lies, as told by a chiropractor. By Aaron Kubal

Chiropractic lies, as told by a chiropractor. By Aaron Kubal

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

202,855 views • 3 years ago

In an appearance for my friend Timothy Caulfield’s new CBC Gem documentary about the intersection of the manosphere and wellness industry (called Harder Better Faster Stronger), I warn men about the perils of tanning and slapping their balls.

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In an appearance for my friend Timothy Caulfield’s new CBC Gem documentary about the intersection of the manosphere and wellness industry (called Harder Better Faster Stronger), I warn men about the perils of tanning and slapping their balls.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

123,869 views • 1 year ago