This mailing list is a companion to the Pseudoscience in Psychology website. It focuses on controvertial issues in psychiatry, psychology and medicine. It is...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Nov 2, 1999 1:01 am
Hello everyone, I would like thank all of you for accepting my invitation to participate in the Pseudoscience in Psychology mailing list. It has been awhile...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Nov 2, 1999 3:29 am
07:48 PM ET 10/18/99 Study: Brain's Moral Compass Found By MALCOLM RITTER= AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) _ A key part of the brain's circuitry for learning ...
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collissa@...
Nov 2, 1999 7:03 am
Hi to all, glad to be onboard and looking forward to the direction this group may take. I am interested in the educated and/or credentialed members of our...
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collissa@...
Nov 2, 1999 3:47 pm
After reading my own posting sent back to me via email, I had to laugh out loud (after a proper horrified period of blushing) at the typo inadvertently...
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jehu@...
Nov 3, 1999 9:29 pm
It is amazing how many of the public cannot seem to distinguish unproven theories and pseudoscience from true science. Some theoretical concepts such as...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Nov 4, 1999 4:02 am
... Thanks for the message. I'm glad you are becomming skeptical of what the media and authorities currently claim is scientific. As for evolution, there...
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Stanton Peele
speele@...
Nov 4, 1999 1:10 pm
The fact that people are both more religious than ever and that they simultaneously endorse genetic and neurological theories of behavior more than ever shows...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Nov 6, 1999 10:56 pm
Ritalin: Violence Against Boys Drug is being used to sedate active, young boys Massachusetts News Sidebar: Ritalin Basics November 1--If Huckleberry Finn and...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Nov 7, 1999 5:46 pm
I recently came across a website developed by a psychiatrist devoted to exposing fraud and pseudoscience in the healthcare system. You can visit at:...
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David Herman
daherman@...
Nov 7, 1999 6:37 pm
Dr. Barrett is one of the editors of THE SCIENTIFIC REVIEW OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE. I think it is a great publication. I am hoping that Dr. Szasz will become...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Nov 8, 1999 10:54 pm
... Do you know if this jorunal has a website? How do I get to see a copy? Rob Pseudoscience in Psychology http://members.xoom.com/psych_books/ Join the...
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dhchasey@...
Nov 14, 1999 5:43 am
Hi Rob and all, David Chasey here. Who on earth can resist a group named "pseudoscience-in-psych"? I certainly could not. Rob, I read your post at the PSYCH-CI...
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dhchasey@...
Nov 14, 1999 5:52 am
Just a short comment of evolution. And as Rob indicated with his reply, we can take up this subject via private post. But the point: 1: evolution & 2:...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Nov 16, 1999 5:51 am
Hello everyone. Our list is at 20 members and counting... I know the group has been silent for the past few days. I have been working on adding new features...
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Stanton Peele
speele@...
Nov 17, 1999 2:14 am
20 people who will change the world How about a graph of antidepressant drug precriptions versus depression diagnoses -- more treatment --> more illness. S P ...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Nov 17, 1999 5:12 am
I found the following article at www.medscape.com I recommend you join if you want the latest information in the world of medicine. ...
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David H. Chasey
dhchasey@...
Nov 17, 1999 10:29 am
I invite you all to explore the documents in the vault at http://www.egroups.com/docvault/alt-psych-network/ An example of pseudoscience in psychiatry it...
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Stanton Peele
speele@...
Nov 17, 1999 6:49 pm
Pubdate: Nov 6, 1999 Source: New Scientist (UK) Page: 17 Copyright: New Scientist, RBI Limited 1999 Author: Nell Boyce TOO YOUNG? Now even two-year-olds are...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Nov 18, 1999 2:41 am
A question for the research/scientific oriented members of the group. The biostatistician in me has been pondering this question for awhile. It is commonly...
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JayJoseph2@...
Nov 18, 1999 10:13 pm
Dear Rob, The questions you raise about behavior genetics and heritability are, as you might say, right up my alley, so I thought I’d respond. It is my...
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JayJoseph2@...
Nov 18, 1999 11:00 pm
I see that my discussion of behvior genetics was garbled in the transition from word processing to e-mail, so I am attaching it as a file. Jay Joseph...
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Stanton Peele
speele@...
Nov 18, 1999 11:40 pm
The answer to the identical twin/fraternal twin heritability calculation is the high figures they get for everything, including TV viewing. Themethodology is...
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katherine heather
katie@...
Nov 19, 1999 5:45 am
Hi Rob & Everybody, I'm a developmental psychology graduate student so I felt I should say something about your question. One thing that surprises me about...
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David Herman
daherman@...
Nov 19, 1999 5:49 am
The Lasker Foundation just gave Dr. Seymour Kety a Lasker Award, considered the American Nobel Prize, for his research in psychiatric genetics. Kety is famous,...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Nov 19, 1999 11:43 pm
Hello, and thanks to everyone who posted some responses. I hope those who are not as familiar with genetics and psychology can follow this discussion. Feel...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Nov 22, 1999 4:26 am
Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity Studies of Verbal Hallucinations Ivan Leudar, University of Manchester Philip Thomas, University of Bradford Records of...
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Stanton Peele
speele@...
Nov 23, 1999 1:45 am
This is very important material. I am aware of several studies of people who hear voices -- but don't think they're crazy and function as ordinary people! ...
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Stanton Peele
speele@...
Nov 23, 1999 1:45 am
The bok being reviewed by Kramer is: Creating Hysteria Women and Multiple Personality Disorder By JOAN ACOCELLA...
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Rob Ryley
rmr7@...
Nov 23, 1999 3:36 am
Interesting article. I remember when I did my internship on an inpatient psych ward in Newark last year, there were at least 2 Dissociative Identity Disorder...
