We don’t need a “Mental Health Awareness Month” we need a “Build housing, Create jobs, and Lower the cost of living” Month

You’ve got to hand it to India. Homeopathy starts DM degrees in super specialties in India. Can our collective IQ go any lower than zero ? I think not. There are zillions of superstitious ignorant desperate patients in India just waiting for this kind of horseshit to be

I’ve been that doctor. The labs are fine. The imaging is clean. But everything in your gut says: “This is all wrong.” And you do… nothing. Because medicine trained you to be more afraid of action than of failure.

1/ This is what AI advocates always misunderstand about therapy. They think it’s an advantage that a machine cannot judge or disapprove. Not so Therapy is the psychological work it takes for us to become able to reveal ourselves to a human being—who *could* judge or disapprove

AI therapy is based on a delusion. It’s called the ELIZA effect. ELIZA was one of the first AI chatbots (1966!) designed to try to pass the Turing Test. Famously, a “DOCTOR” script was written that mimicked the responses a therapist in the school of Carl Rogers would give.

In psychotherapy, every patient must ultimately choose between getting well and getting even

It’s a hefty 206-page research paper, and the findings are concerning. "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels" This study finds LLM dependence weakens the writer’s own neural and linguistic fingerprints. 🤔🤔 Relying only on EEG,

AI is about to push back the frontiers of mental illness and reveal vistas of insanity that are as yet unimaginable.

Rob Poole (who we all know from Twitter) talking about the people who don’t get better and the injustice of modern medical systems that don’t want to look after them.

The names and profiles of the 36 people named by the CBI in the medical college recognition scam are shocking. Now take a closer look – It starts with the former chairman of the country's most prestigious university regulatory body UGC: 1. D.P. Singh – former UGC chairman. The

Do your kids play Roblox? You should read this explainer, about how the monetization strategies of multi-player games have changed, incentivizing companies to put kids into harmful situations in 8 ways. New at AfterBabel.com afterbabel.com/p/its-not-just…

Make this your must read for the day. We need to celebrate doctors like her. This is the story of Dr. Sivaranjani Santosh, a paediatrician from Hyderabad, who fought for 8 years against sugar-rich drinks falsely marketed as ORS. Her persistence led to FSSAI’s landmark order,

Disabled Canadians increasingly under pressure to opt for euthanasia (MAID) during routine doctor visits, internal documents show todayville.com/disabled-canad…

My teacher Dr Pande told me this early in my training. "You must choose who you are working for. It is about who you choose to become. An agent of change for your patient or a mercenary hired by the family" (She never minces her words). I spent 6 months learning systemic

Make the sports books illegal again. unherd.com/2025/10/make-s…

For the public and patients, please do not stop vaccinating your children. You don't want polio to come back. You don't want measles to kill your child like it is doing in the US because boomer uncles in charge of US Health Departments have become anti science. The conclusions

The tyranny of wellness: When self-care becomes another performance metric, a psychosocial KPI. Your meditation app has a streak counter. Your watch grades your sleep. You can now "fail" at relaxation. It's gamified - because it's hard to muster internal motivation. The twisted

Ahead of its time youtube.com/shorts/wJ7Hdtf…

Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human allostatic–interoceptive system using 7 Tesla fMRI Jiahe Zhang Lisa Feldman Barrett Marta Bianciardi nature.com/articles/s4159…