Topic: bad information

If Ginormous Study #1 happens to be flawed methodologically, those errors will carry right over into the meta-analysis process.

In an effort to make them sexier, research findings may be misstated or misinterpreted.

It’s often true that the folks who are technically most misinformed on an issue have the greatest degree of confidence in the rightness of their beliefs.

Problem is, we in the general public don’t like being made to wait. We want answers, and we want them to be final.

The idea is to collect hits, and that happened the moment you clicked the link. Ad revenue is what it’s all about. The more clicks, the more they can charge.

Yet because the information is compiled by an outside firm, the program can trumpet ‘independently verified’ outcomes.

There are many concepts in clinical psychology that are not science-based, but are nonetheless still of use in therapy.

Maybe it’s just one of those things that alcoholics and addicts feel they have to try before they settle down to face the challenges of actual recovery– which turns out not to be all that frickin’ easy.

Pundits are always telling us that science proves this or that, but when we look closer, we find it proves neither.

The treatment population is jam-packed with vulnerable people and families desperately looking for magic solutions to a genuinely challenging problem like recovery.