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Mailbag: Anti-Psychiatry Fallacies and Falsehoods

January 23, 2017January 31, 2023 emilskeptic alternative medicine, anti-psychiatry, chronic fatigue syndrome, Debunking New Age Woo, DSM, PACE trial, replication crisis, science has been wrong before, scientology

Anti-psychiatry pseudoscience works just like anti-vaccine crankery: deny or downplay the illnesses, reject the treatments, dismiss mechanisms and spread vile contempt of doctors.

Debunking Anti-Psychiatry

The Anti-Psychiatry Propaganda of Nathan Shachar

January 2, 2014June 20, 2016 emilskeptic ADHD, antidepressants, chemical imbalance, corporate ethics, Dagens Nyheter, Janne Larsson, Nathan Shachar, Peter Wolodarski, placebo, scientology

Dagens Nyheter (the largest morning newspaper in Sweden) continues to promote pseudoscience. Last month, the newspaper decided to publish a

Debunking Anti-Psychiatry

Some Common Anti-Psychiatry Archetypes

August 7, 2013March 19, 2016 emilskeptic alternative medicine, anti-psychiatry, archetype, conspiracy lunatic, creationist, ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, law of attraction, new age, scientology, selective skepticism, sophisticated mysterian, the alt med zealot, the secret

The anti-psychiatry movement resembles the anti-vaccine movement and HIV/AIDS denialism in many ways. Whereas anti-vaccine cranks claim that vaccine-preventable diseases