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Excellent summary of how we might fix medicine.

Revisado: 03-02-25

I deeply appreciated his skepticism, and deep and thoughtful critical, thinking skills. Instead of simply diagnosing the problem, he also builds to a possible solution.
Instead of using the phrase “evidence based “ as an imprimatur for authority and group think, we should all become more self-aware.
That is, notice when we are being “opinion-based” versus “evidence-based.” And please let the heretics & heterodox people think and speak, freely!

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Great Summary

Revisado: 02-06-25

The Parasitic Mind is a great summary of the scientific prices of thinking and free inquiry, as well as anti-science impulses popular in developed nations over the past decade.

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Great

Revisado: 12-21-24

Great overview. Still don’t fully understand block chain; however, I also am not an expert on economics. So a good primer on core issues around bitcoin as a technology and the sociopolitical ramifications of it.

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Great

Revisado: 04-10-24

Thoughtful! Generous!! And, wiser than most of us are on our best days!
I’ve listened to him periodically for years, but this book added meaningful dimensions to my understanding of these topics!

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BAD CULTURE

Revisado: 03-05-24

I am a Licensed Psychologist who has struggled to understand many of these issues.

In addition to exploring BAD THERAPY, this is a book that provides an essential critique of a BAD CULTURE that has created more suffering throughout the West, especially as it relates to negative outcomes in children and teens.

Data shows that certain ideas (e.g. “what doesn’t kill you makes your weaker;” radical-individualism; etc.) and attitudes (e.g. negativity-bias; resentment; & External Locus of Control, ELOC: a belief that your own actions don’t have impact, & you can’t change things; etc.) reinforce helplessness, increase distress (e.g. increased anxiety, depression, distress, etc.), and decrease resilience in the people who hold them.

Our therapists and researchers – “experts,” “authorities,” researchers, & managers – have increasingly adopted many of these bad ideas/ideologies, as a function of cultural-programming (e.g. think Soviet Union). Subsequently, the U.S. has poorer outcomes (e.g. more depression; more anxiety; etc.), even as we spend more on psych-medication and therapy than any country in human history (e.g. Ormel, et al., 2022, “the treatment-prevalence paradox”).

Furthermore, our BAD CULTURE is further ‘warping’ what THERAPY is in the United States. Therapists are increasingly adopting beliefs that are maladaptive (e.g. “what doesn’t kill you makes you weaker;” “hurt feelings is trauma;” etc.). At the same time, they are less, physically healthy themselves (e.g. obese; chronically ill; etc.), less mentally-resilient, and less tolerant of difference and discomfort.

Simultaneously, therapists are taught that they are the “expert” class, and only “bad people” criticize them. Self-serving accreditation and professional organizations often reinforce these narratives, interfering with course-correction. Even evidence-based therapy communities (e.g. cognitive-behavioral therapy, CBT) have been “captured;” and, they have begun prioritizing ideology over collecting data (e.g. “the Behavior Therapist,” Volume 46, No 7 – 8) and measuring real, ‘iatrogenic harm’ (i.e. illness caused by the ‘treatment’) in therapy.

Surveys have identified that obese, medical doctors are less likely to be confident and/or effective in coaching diet & exercise changes in their patients. In this BAD CULTURE, therapists who are terrible about being accountable for their own physical and mental health – including, prosocial engagement with their family and community – are less likely to be effective at coaching their client’s toward healthy change.

Most of all, I value that the author encourages parents to trust “real experts.” She advises parents to seek out people who have actually raised healthy, resilient, and strong children. The advice they give is often the opposite of what “professional experts” have been brainwashed to sell you. That is the truest empirical test of what works in raising healthy children and teens.

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Excellent

Revisado: 12-08-23

This book was eye-opening. It draws the origins of the establishment of current security states, specifically focusing on elements within US intelligence that may have been responsible for the assassination of a US president.. Evaluations how much of this shadow government was developed, bankrolled by big business and financial industries, and is still with us today - undermining, democratic processes 

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Superb

Revisado: 11-06-23

Very thoughtful. Eddy, but also very human and sensitive to the various perspectives! Helpful in understanding of the different ideologies involved, as well as their likely consequences.

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Superb

Revisado: 10-23-23

Well researched, written, & argued!
A challenge to all sides to not have “censorship envy.”
And, instead be stronger, more resilient, and committed to free speech culture.

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The best….

Revisado: 05-10-23

Amazingly well organized, and cited. Presents points of view, and perspectives from all over the issue.
Avoids moralizing while addressing the moral complexity, potential pluses and pitfalls within this topic. As a mental health professional, that works within a profession that has been ideologically captured, I was grateful to learn more about this incredibly complex issue from someone trying to get to the truth.

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Superb

Revisado: 04-04-23

I’m not sure I know any other scholar who could have wrote this book. Superb AND unique in it’s POV, assessment, and purported solutions!

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