Dr. Jonathan N. Stea
@jonathanstea.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Clinical Psychologist. Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Calgary. Author.
New book: www.JonathanStea.com
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University of Calgary: https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/jonathan-n-stea
New book: www.JonathanStea.com
Newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathanstea
University of Calgary: https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/jonathan-n-stea
If the alternative medicine community viewed alternative medicine with the same skepticism it applies to modern medicine, it would have far more credibility.
December 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
If the alternative medicine community viewed alternative medicine with the same skepticism it applies to modern medicine, it would have far more credibility.
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This is perfect.
I made this meme about 4 years ago. Glad to see it in circulation. 😊🙏
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is perfect.
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Excellent point. I unnecessarily dealt with some serious health issues as a result of seeing a homeopath, and when I didn't get better, I felt like I had failed. I never thought of it this way before
November 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Excellent point. I unnecessarily dealt with some serious health issues as a result of seeing a homeopath, and when I didn't get better, I felt like I had failed. I never thought of it this way before
Patient-blaming rhetoric is baked into alternative medicine.
The idea is that if you could just...
“Change your mindset”
“Live naturally”
“Eliminate toxins” (with supplements)
“Resolve trauma”
...then you can avoid serious health conditions such as cancer.
The idea is that if you could just...
“Change your mindset”
“Live naturally”
“Eliminate toxins” (with supplements)
“Resolve trauma”
...then you can avoid serious health conditions such as cancer.
November 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Patient-blaming rhetoric is baked into alternative medicine.
The idea is that if you could just...
“Change your mindset”
“Live naturally”
“Eliminate toxins” (with supplements)
“Resolve trauma”
...then you can avoid serious health conditions such as cancer.
The idea is that if you could just...
“Change your mindset”
“Live naturally”
“Eliminate toxins” (with supplements)
“Resolve trauma”
...then you can avoid serious health conditions such as cancer.
I love Canada. 🇨🇦
November 30, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I love Canada. 🇨🇦
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When the head of the United States health care system doesn’t believe that HIV causes AIDS, it’s easier to see why germ theory denialism is having its biggest moment since 1890.
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
When the head of the United States health care system doesn’t believe that HIV causes AIDS, it’s easier to see why germ theory denialism is having its biggest moment since 1890.
The late Canadian psychologist Barry L. Beyerstein astutely noted that “even if promoters of pseudoscience are not intentionally trying to con you, it’s entirely possible that they have conned themselves.”
It’s perhaps those who have conned themselves who are the most dangerous.
It’s perhaps those who have conned themselves who are the most dangerous.
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The late Canadian psychologist Barry L. Beyerstein astutely noted that “even if promoters of pseudoscience are not intentionally trying to con you, it’s entirely possible that they have conned themselves.”
It’s perhaps those who have conned themselves who are the most dangerous.
It’s perhaps those who have conned themselves who are the most dangerous.
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You know you’re terminally online when you come across this kind of conspiracy and feel grateful that it acknowledges that viruses exist.
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
You know you’re terminally online when you come across this kind of conspiracy and feel grateful that it acknowledges that viruses exist.
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I made this meme about 4 years ago. Glad to see it in circulation. 😊🙏
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I made this meme about 4 years ago. Glad to see it in circulation. 😊🙏
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When the head of the United States health care system doesn’t believe that HIV causes AIDS, it’s easier to see why germ theory denialism is having its biggest moment since 1890.
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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When the head of the United States health care system doesn’t believe that HIV causes AIDS, it’s easier to see why germ theory denialism is having its biggest moment since 1890.
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
When the head of the United States health care system doesn’t believe that HIV causes AIDS, it’s easier to see why germ theory denialism is having its biggest moment since 1890.
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An excerpt from my book to address this kind of pseudoscience apologetics.
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
An excerpt from my book to address this kind of pseudoscience apologetics.
I actually wish your reality were true—the one where I get paid and viruses don’t exist.
November 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I actually wish your reality were true—the one where I get paid and viruses don’t exist.
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I care about people getting ripped off or even dying because quack medicine steered them away from science-based medicine.
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I care about people getting ripped off or even dying because quack medicine steered them away from science-based medicine.
I made this meme about 4 years ago. Glad to see it in circulation. 😊🙏
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I made this meme about 4 years ago. Glad to see it in circulation. 😊🙏
An excerpt from my book to address this kind of pseudoscience apologetics.
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
An excerpt from my book to address this kind of pseudoscience apologetics.
The best way to deal with pseudoscientific health practices is to be informed, honest, and forthright about them.
Unambiguous exposés of quackery will inevitably appear rude to some people and hurt some feelings.
This is a fact of adult life.
- Dr. Kimball Atwood
Unambiguous exposés of quackery will inevitably appear rude to some people and hurt some feelings.
This is a fact of adult life.
- Dr. Kimball Atwood
Sure, but when you cure something in a way everyone doesn't believe, the cure makes you care less about the believing.
Condemning alternative medicine doesn't improve peoples' faith in western medicine, it just makes practitioners outcasts.
Condemning alternative medicine doesn't improve peoples' faith in western medicine, it just makes practitioners outcasts.
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The best way to deal with pseudoscientific health practices is to be informed, honest, and forthright about them.
Unambiguous exposés of quackery will inevitably appear rude to some people and hurt some feelings.
This is a fact of adult life.
- Dr. Kimball Atwood
Unambiguous exposés of quackery will inevitably appear rude to some people and hurt some feelings.
This is a fact of adult life.
- Dr. Kimball Atwood
You know you’re terminally online when you come across this kind of conspiracy and feel grateful that it acknowledges that viruses exist.
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
You know you’re terminally online when you come across this kind of conspiracy and feel grateful that it acknowledges that viruses exist.
Like gazing up at the night sky, sometimes I log onto social media and feel a profound sense of awe at the breathtaking elegance and stunning sophistication of the comments.
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Like gazing up at the night sky, sometimes I log onto social media and feel a profound sense of awe at the breathtaking elegance and stunning sophistication of the comments.
Alternative medicine grifters will tell you to “follow the money!”
Just not their money…
Just not their money…
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Alternative medicine grifters will tell you to “follow the money!”
Just not their money…
Just not their money…
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If you're getting your health information from physicians who have been professionally sanctioned and lost their licenses, then consider perhaps not doing that...
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you're getting your health information from physicians who have been professionally sanctioned and lost their licenses, then consider perhaps not doing that...
If you're getting your health information from physicians who have been professionally sanctioned and lost their licenses, then consider perhaps not doing that...
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you're getting your health information from physicians who have been professionally sanctioned and lost their licenses, then consider perhaps not doing that...
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The misuse of anecdotal evidence is the heart of pseudoscience and the currency of alternative medicine.
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The misuse of anecdotal evidence is the heart of pseudoscience and the currency of alternative medicine.
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We anxiously await his appointment to a MAHA leadership position in US public health—along with Barney the dinosaur, Kid Rock, the QAnon Shaman guy from January 6th, and Inspector Gadget.
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
We anxiously await his appointment to a MAHA leadership position in US public health—along with Barney the dinosaur, Kid Rock, the QAnon Shaman guy from January 6th, and Inspector Gadget.