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James C.Coyne
@CoyneoftheRealm
Irreverent, socially conscious Clinical Health Psychologist, #Skeptic debunking hype. Teaching scientists how to promote their work without it. Views my own.
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6/ Kinderman was the great white hope of their group receiving a Pulizer or John Maddox Prize, but they are still hopeful for PK to receive the Valeriu Boboc Prize from Romania where getting a retraction does not disqualify someone and academic misconduct is the norm.
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4/ Paper and its retraction represent Kinderman's continued efforts to punish people who point the racism among PK and his followers. PK threatened to sue Deans who would not stop me saying his group would ask a Black person to clear the tables if one mistakenly showed up.
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3/ Original acceptance of Kinderman's paper was as an inside job." Dame Til Wykes was co-author of Understanding Psychosis. She has now invited a resubmission. Is there further embarrassment ahead?
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2/ PK's unpersuasive excuse fro his behavior: "We had not intended to withhold important information from reviews or readers, but had instead removed identification from all the blogs, including mine, to permit blind review."
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I doubt Moncrieff’s fans ever dream that she prescribes lithium despite this evidence that she claims upsets her. Her fans should ask her. mcoyneakacoyneoftherealm.substack.com/p/alarming-a-p
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Some psychiatrists are still recommending lithium for prevention despite more evidence of renal complications thelancet.com/journals/lanps
When I got close to the center of things. I was dismayed that a potential Organization with clear-cut rules could be so undermined by incompetence and some positions and decisions being made by who was sleeping with whom. Affairs with the heads of key committees created power.
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Does the WHO have a flaky grasp of mental illness? twitter.com/drruthannharpu…
Seyle slipped into the realm of pop and never got outed for tobacco money in the same way. Eysenck distracted from others like Spielberger and Seyle and Irwin Sarason.
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Did Selye’s legacy ever get reviewed like Eysenck‘s? twitter.com/CoyneoftheReal…
We at least got some productive. debate going with Hans Seyle, the Dohrenwends, Leonard Pearlin, and Mardi Horowitz but I ended up a nonbeliever.
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Always had a lot of time for some of Lazarus’ thinking… twitter.com/CoyneoftheReal…
Richard Lazarus and I tried to resolve the cognition vs environment debate by calling for a transactional approach but we split when he drifted into a defender of cognitive appraisal
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Replying to @PeterHaehner
Great review on the importance of cognition vs external events. A shame the overwhelming majority of research subjects are US college students but not the fault of @PeterHaehner et al. But it does emphasize the need for more diverse clinical population research
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Few self-professed Marxists on campus read Marx anymore and their actions suggest that they are confused Stalinists.
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As someone who knew Marxism only through the texts and its strongest proponents, I never understood why people had such visceral hatred for Marxists, especially calling them "intolerant". Interacting with self-professed Marxist undergrads at liberal arts unis, i know now.
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Did you get thst understanding from Peter Kinderman the retracted? Have you tested that understanding with real-world psychiatrists
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Replying to @awaisaftab
My understanding is that psychiatry is a branch of medicine. Like all medicine, its core mission is to treat medical problems. It seems to follow that to the extent it has authority over mental distress, it’s because it views that distress as a medical problem, i.e., pathology.
Alarming: A Psychiatrist Tells Patients With Bipolar Disorder Not to Take Their Medication Joanna Moncrieff discourages patients from accepting any biomedical treatment whatsoever but she offers no alternatives. She embarrassed herself this time. mcoyneakacoyneoftherealm.substack.com/p/alarming-a-p
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'the claim that lithium reduces suicide is quite fanciful and not borne out by the evidence from randomised trials' coverage of our review by @Mad_In_America madinamerica.com/2022/10/lithiu
Indeed, we have 50 years of experience with Lithium. It saves lives but is not pleasant to take.
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Replying to @CoyneoftheRealm
Isn't Lithium the one that has most evidence behind it? I'm sure I heard that somewhere!
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I doubt Moncrieff’s fans ever dream that she prescribes lithium despite this evidence that she claims upsets her. Her fans should ask her. mcoyneakacoyneoftherealm.substack.com/p/alarming-a-p
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After 30 years of profit-taking by Big Harma based on a faulty premise, #TheScience spontaneously announces: "Depression Is Not Caused by Chemical Imbalance in the Brain. We don’t know how antidepressants work." We don't know that they work, either. psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/insigh
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Alarming: A Psychiatrist Tells Patients With Bipolar Disorder Not to Take Their Medication Joanna Moncrieff discourages patients from accepting any biomedical treatment whatsoever but she offers no alternatives. She embarrassed herself this time. mcoyneakacoyneoftherealm.substack.com/p/alarming-a-p
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At one point I thought I didn't need medication.. I was wrong bipolarlife.uk/2022/08/15/doe #lithium #bipolar #mentalillness #livedexperience
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Professor Moncrieff, I'd suggest that you get yourself to rehab, except we both agree that there ain’t no mental health cure for the addiction of proving null hypotheses. It is just so damn much fun and predictably draws such praise from your followers.
Look how badly behaved clinical psychologists are on social media are who are associated with BPS and how the organization does nothing to protect others from them – call leagues and patients. Peter Kinderman is hardly a moral giant. Even when he’s not getting articles retracted.
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PSA for aspiring psychologists - you do not need to be a member of the BPS to get on clinical training. You only need to be eligible for membership. If you don’t like how they act, don’t give them your money.
This keeps happening with frontiers and the academic community needs to know about it. Authors who Have published in frontiers Become stakeholders and keeping these practices secret.
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I can't believe it. Frontiers notified me that they had assigned me as editor for a manuscript and provided a link for me to select reviewers.
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