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Prozac Is Unsafe and Ineffective for Young People, Analysis Finds

Maryanne Demasi / May 13, 2023 / Policy, Psychology, Public Health / 5 minute read

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Antidepressants like fluoxetine double the risk of suicide and aggression in children and adolescentso, they often lead to decreased quality of life, they cause sexual dysfunction in about 50% of users, and these harms may continue long after they try to quit. There seems to be no rationale for using fluoxetine in young people for treating depression – the new analysis concludes the drug is unsafe and ineffective.

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Whatever Happened to the Healing Power of Positive Thinking?

Seth Smith / May 10, 2023 / Psychology / 6 minute read

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How did belief in the natural healing power of the body and mind get replaced by hysteria, panic, iatrogenesis and a fanatical reliance on Big Pharma? What black hole did all the hippies and granola-types fall into, the people I spent much time with as a kid, while helping my mother at our local food co-op?

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Clean vs. Dirty: A Way to Understand Everything

Jeffrey A. Tucker / April 23, 2023 / Philosophy, Policy, Psychology / 15 minute read

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The clean vs. dirty distinction was once an indicator of class, perhaps a desiderata of germaphobic pathology, even a harmless eccentricity. But in 2020, the obsession became extreme, an aesthetic priority that overrode all morality and truth. It then became a fundamental threat to liberty, self-government, and human rights.Today this demarcation has invaded the whole of our lives, and it threatens to create a horrifying caste system consisting of those who enjoy rights and privileges vs those who do not and serve (at a distance) the elites.

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Models Do Not and Cannot Reveal All Truth

Alan Lash / April 12, 2023 / Psychology, Society / 6 minute read

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Whenever a politician, or an authority, or even a friend tells you that all is known, that there is a model which defines the truth, and that by following the model the future will be known, be skeptical. There are mysteries beyond human understanding that escape even the deepest logical reasoning of man.

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The Suffering of the Innocent

Michael J. Sutton / April 3, 2023 / Philosophy, Psychology / 5 minute read

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We need to hear from the victims of Covid Hysteria if we seek real change. If we believe in freedom, we will start listening to those who have cried in the wilderness, walked in the darkness, and suffered in silence. The rest is background noise.

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Social Isolation Bad For Social Mammals – Who Knew?

Daniel Nuccio / March 30, 2023 / Psychology, Public Health / 6 minute read

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What were the cumulative health effects of encouraging, coercing, and forcing large populations into states of prolonged social isolation while simultaneously instilling in them intense fear and inflicting upon them economic uncertainty and hardship? What will the long-term effects of this be? And how could our public health experts not have considered that doing this to a social mammal might have been bad for their health?

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The Mandates Themselves Carry Grave Costs

Aaron Hertzberg / March 22, 2023 / Psychology / 14 minute read

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The inevitable consequence of public denouncements of the unvaccinated is that those who made them are necessarily rooting for the unvaccinated to suffer the grim fates they had articulated, at least in part, having invested themselves and their credibility in this narrative.

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Psyops Are Not New, Just More Dangerous

Alan Lash / March 17, 2023 / Psychology / 7 minute read

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As the terrifying totalitarian regimes used it against their people to foment murderous rage, the same could be in store for us. It’s going to take people who understand they are being manipulated, who understand they are being used, who understand they want their independence and freedom, to engender a peaceful and meaningful life for all.

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Do You Matter?

Julie Ponesse / March 13, 2023 / Psychology / 9 minute read

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Do facts matter? Of course they do. But facts, alone, will not answer the questions we really care about. The real ammunition of the COVID war is not information. It’s not a battle over what is true, what counts as misinformation, what it means to #followthescience. It’s a battle over what our lives mean and, ultimately, whether we matter.

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Brainwashing Versus Critical Thinking in Japan

Bruce W. Davidson / March 13, 2023 / Philosophy, Psychology / 6 minute read

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The overwhelming majority in all age groups in Japan got caught up in the panic generated by government officials, mainstream news media, and the medical community. For three years now masks have been worn continuously everywhere, including mountain trails and public parks. The widespread use of brainwashing here has been especially disheartening to me, since I have spent much of my time and effort over the last thirty years teaching, researching, and writing about critical thinking education in Japan.

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The Unforgivable Sin

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson / February 18, 2023 / Philosophy, Psychology / 9 minute read

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We must judge the authorities all over the world who relentlessly pumped out panic-laden, often knowingly false propaganda during the past three years, in order to provoke fear and despair, while deliberately silencing and censoring all attempts at promoting a more balanced and healthy view; how they stifled critical thinking. And it is in this light that we must view the disastrous consequences of this conduct, and how it first and foremost harmed the young, the poor; our smallest brethren.

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Superego, Id, and the Mandated Jab

Alan Lash / February 16, 2023 / Psychology, Vaccines / 7 minute read

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Vaccine mandates hit hard in the late summer and fall of 2021. Get the jab or lose your job. Health care workers and public sector employees had it especially bad. Somehow it seemed right. If you are interacting with the public in a health capacity, you need to be sure you won’t infect anyone. If you are a government employee, surely the government should be able to tell you what you have to take to make everyone else safe.

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