pseudoscience
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How to Cheat on a Lie Detector Test
Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks we’d usually refrain from recommending. Want to weasel your way into free drinks, play elaborate mind games, or, er, launder some money? We’ve got all the info you need to be successfully unsavory. Polygraph machines, better known as lie detectors, are bullshit.…
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Stop Spewing Ancient Aliens’ Racist Theories
You don’t need me to tell you that the Ancient Aliens series, which somehow airs on a network called History, is utter bullshit. Its whole gimmick is that it’s silly and “just entertainment,” and yes, probably most viewers watch it that way. But I don’t want to talk about that. I want to talk about…
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12 Common ‘Laws’ of Psychology That Are BS
You can be forgiven for not understanding human behaviour very well. People are complicated, and it’s hard to understand why we do what we do, especially since the answer is likely due to a trick our minds are playing on us. Simply eliminating the variables necessary to test a hypotheses about the cause of even…
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I’m ‘Couples Therapy’ Psychologist Dr. Orna Guralnik, and This Is How I Work
Dr. Orna Guralnik’s career is all about drawing boundaries. As a psychoanalyst, boundaries between herself and patients, in addition to the necessary space between her work and personal life, are in constant interplay. Pair that with hosting Showtime’s Couple’s Therapy — called “raw and delicious” by at least one prominent outlet — and you have…