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Scientific American Publishes Anti-Psychiatry Nonsense

November 23, 2014 Emil Karlsson anti-medication, chemical imbalance, Cohen's kappa, comorbidity, genetic architecture, Inter-rater agreement, mental illness denial, missing heritability, Peter Kinderman, psychiatry, Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, Thomas Insel

Imagine that Scientific American published a blog post promoting the idea that we should abandon a disease-centered perspective on autoimmunity

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Metro Promotes Anti-Vaccine Homeopath During Measles Outbreak

May 1, 2014May 26, 2017 Emil Karlsson anti-vaccine, Donna Powers, homeopathy, Jeremy Nolais, Metro Calgary, vaccine, vaccines

Before vaccines, measles use to infect an estimated 3-4 million people a year in the United States (CDC, 2012). Measles

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Debunking Bad Science Journalism

Time to Get Rid of Bad Science Journalism

February 16, 2014March 19, 2016 Emil Karlsson ADHD Denialism, bad science journalism, black holes, cognitive myopia, Geoffrey Kabat, global warming hiatus, Hawking, Ingrid Wickelgren, Jeff Tollefson, lung cancer, meta-analytical thinking, passive smoking, sensationalism, Zeeya Merali

One of the largest obstacles to the public understanding of science is the presence of pseudoscientific crankery that replaces evidence

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Investigative Skepticism Versus the Mass Media

October 13, 2013March 19, 2016 Emil Karlsson confidence interval, confirmation bias, effect size, Flashback, Gunilla Krantz, investigative skepticism, relationship violence against men, response rate, single-study fallacy

We are constantly being bombarded with messages from newspapers, television, blogs and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter about

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