'Maintaining rational expectations about psychedelic interventions.' Our rapid response with Ioana A Cristea, Eiko Fried, Tim Kaiser, Michael P. Hengartner, PhD, and Erick Turner @eturnermd1.bsky.social is out. 🧶

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Centre for Male Psychology Zac Fine Men must be helped to build a sustainable, rich life using their masculinity to find a life's passion and direction. Masculinity is not the enemy: directionlessness is.

Our explosive past: on cataclysms and demographics razibkhan.com/p/our-explosiv… 74,000 years ago, a volcano erupted at western Indonesia’s Lake Toba, leaving half a foot of ashfall as far west as India. The most powerful explosion of the last 2.5 million years, the Toba eruption…

It’s incredible how quickly modern journalists have embraced the idea that it’s okay to make unsupported accusations, ignore facts, or misquote, if they think they’re writing about a bad or undeserving person.

Killer article, on (The Fall of Un)Scientific American. Includes this killer quote from Geoffrey Miller:
'“Scientists, science publishers, and science journalists simply haven’t learned how to say no to emotionally unhinged activists,” evolutionary psychologist Miller says. “They’re…

How are human samples collected in evolutionary and personality psychology?

A lot of people seem confused and incredulous to learn that very few samples are representative.

Below is the first part of a table describing the samples from > 100 papers I reviewed for the last…

Almost every point this person makes in this screed against me on Evan Urquhart's site is incorrect.

Among the errors are... 🧵⬇️⬇️

Some economists tried to reproduce the results of 67 economics papers and they pretty much couldn't do it:

Even with help from authors, only half of papers ended up being reproducible, and this was still a problem at journals with required reporting of code and data.

This is so lame. Columbia tuition is almost $70,000 a year. And yet the administration still can’t figure out how to handle a small, very loud group of protesters at the expense of the entire student body. A shame.

In 1599 the church used a placebo controlled trial to test if a French girl was possessed by a demon. Holy objects and identical, non-blessed objects were shown to the girl. 'She reacted similarly when exposed to both genuine and sham religious objects' journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Incredibly thorough lit review on CON laws. To absolutely no one's surprise, they suck.

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MIT president Sally Kornbluth: “We can build an inclusive environment in many ways, but compelled statements impinge on freedom of expression, and they don’t work.” unherd.com/newsroom/mit-b…

Sad that Green Day has gone NIMBY

Given that *some* of the protestors have violated free speech principles (creating fortified encampments, taking over buildings, disrupting the speech of others, etc.), this is not a particularly meaningful observation per se.

Jody Rosen If you’re going to make a claim like this you should cite some examples. Personally I’ve seen many Harper’s letter signatories weigh in on the protests, but all asserting the importance of the protesters being allowed to speak, and I think you’re making things up

Jody Rosen I’m a signatory. I’ve publicly defended: protest, use of tents and public art, free expression (even some of the vile pro-Hamas stuff), and advised restraint in using police. I’ve denounced: protestors who restrict movements of fellow students, interference with others…

Jody Rosen Let's not move the goalposts just yet; I genuinely hoped to see evidence of an 'amazing' number of Harper's letter signatories arguing that protest should be banned in a way that would make them hypocrites. Am I correct to assume you do not have this

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