The Neurocritic
@neurocritic.bsky.social
Soft Money Pseudoacademic!
Erratic Blogger!
Occasional Driver of Electric Boats. Still trying to find my place in the world 🏳️🌈
https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/
Erratic Blogger!
Occasional Driver of Electric Boats. Still trying to find my place in the world 🏳️🌈
https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/
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I wrote a blog post about the massive new article on "Neural and molecular changes during a mind-body reconceptualization, meditation, and open label placebo healing intervention." It was a bloodbath neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/11/crea...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #psychology #meditation
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #psychology #meditation
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
My comment is live on @pubpeer.com, and it’s more detailed than the blog post
cc: @deevybee.bsky.social @wiringthebrain.bsky.social @neuroskeptic.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @steamtraen.eu and @retractionwatch.com (may be premature for you…)
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cc: @deevybee.bsky.social @wiringthebrain.bsky.social @neuroskeptic.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @steamtraen.eu and @retractionwatch.com (may be premature for you…)
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November 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
My comment is live on @pubpeer.com, and it’s more detailed than the blog post
cc: @deevybee.bsky.social @wiringthebrain.bsky.social @neuroskeptic.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @steamtraen.eu and @retractionwatch.com (may be premature for you…)
pubpeer.com/publications...
cc: @deevybee.bsky.social @wiringthebrain.bsky.social @neuroskeptic.bsky.social @smutclyde.bsky.social @steamtraen.eu and @retractionwatch.com (may be premature for you…)
pubpeer.com/publications...
I’ll edit and post my comments on @pubpeer.com
cc: @deevybee.bsky.social @wiringthebrain.bsky.social
cc: @deevybee.bsky.social @wiringthebrain.bsky.social
I wrote a blog post about the massive new article on "Neural and molecular changes during a mind-body reconceptualization, meditation, and open label placebo healing intervention." It was a bloodbath neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/11/crea...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #psychology #meditation
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #psychology #meditation
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I’ll edit and post my comments on @pubpeer.com
cc: @deevybee.bsky.social @wiringthebrain.bsky.social
cc: @deevybee.bsky.social @wiringthebrain.bsky.social
Splashy new Joe Dispenza meditation study “THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING“ is flawed:
1. No control group
2. Major motion artifact confound in fMRI
3. Uncorrected multiple comparisons
4. Inconsistent statistics
5. Massive overfitting in machine learning models
neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/11/crea...
1. No control group
2. Major motion artifact confound in fMRI
3. Uncorrected multiple comparisons
4. Inconsistent statistics
5. Massive overfitting in machine learning models
neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/11/crea...
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Splashy new Joe Dispenza meditation study “THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING“ is flawed:
1. No control group
2. Major motion artifact confound in fMRI
3. Uncorrected multiple comparisons
4. Inconsistent statistics
5. Massive overfitting in machine learning models
neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/11/crea...
1. No control group
2. Major motion artifact confound in fMRI
3. Uncorrected multiple comparisons
4. Inconsistent statistics
5. Massive overfitting in machine learning models
neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/11/crea...
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Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
Obituary – Jonathan Smallwood
www.cbs.mpg.de
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
I wrote a blog post about the massive new article on "Neural and molecular changes during a mind-body reconceptualization, meditation, and open label placebo healing intervention." It was a bloodbath neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/11/crea...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #psychology #meditation
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #psychology #meditation
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I wrote a blog post about the massive new article on "Neural and molecular changes during a mind-body reconceptualization, meditation, and open label placebo healing intervention." It was a bloodbath neurocritic.blogspot.com/2025/11/crea...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #psychology #meditation
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #psychology #meditation
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Watch this. I mean it. Watch it
Need to feed your kids? Fine do that first. But the bathroom? Hold it. Watch this first
Jennifer Moriarty describes being thrown in a Border Patrol vehicle & spending hours driven around by, per Daniel Biss, the Keystone Kops danielbiss.substack.com/p/daniel-bis...
Need to feed your kids? Fine do that first. But the bathroom? Hold it. Watch this first
Jennifer Moriarty describes being thrown in a Border Patrol vehicle & spending hours driven around by, per Daniel Biss, the Keystone Kops danielbiss.substack.com/p/daniel-bis...
Daniel Biss talks with detained ICE protestor Jennifer Moriarty
In this recording from our live conversation, I spoke with Evanston resident Jennifer Moriarty, who was "grabbed by the neck" and then detained while peacefully protesting against ICE.
danielbiss.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Watch this. I mean it. Watch it
Need to feed your kids? Fine do that first. But the bathroom? Hold it. Watch this first
Jennifer Moriarty describes being thrown in a Border Patrol vehicle & spending hours driven around by, per Daniel Biss, the Keystone Kops danielbiss.substack.com/p/daniel-bis...
Need to feed your kids? Fine do that first. But the bathroom? Hold it. Watch this first
Jennifer Moriarty describes being thrown in a Border Patrol vehicle & spending hours driven around by, per Daniel Biss, the Keystone Kops danielbiss.substack.com/p/daniel-bis...
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Francis Crick was a eugenicist but also
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Francis Crick was a eugenicist but also
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It's really important to note that not only was Watson a racist and misogynist but his contribution to the double helix was listening to a Rosalind Franklin lecture and getting mad because Francis Crick wouldn't invite him to his sex parties.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
It's really important to note that not only was Watson a racist and misogynist but his contribution to the double helix was listening to a Rosalind Franklin lecture and getting mad because Francis Crick wouldn't invite him to his sex parties.
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It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
(📸 Getty Images)
(📸 Getty Images)
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
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Construction of the new ball room is coming along nicely at the White House.
October 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Construction of the new ball room is coming along nicely at the White House.
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Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.
“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”
AI is changing how we quantify pain
Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.
www.technologyreview.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.
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Of embryos and vaccines
open.substack.com/pub/sterling...
open.substack.com/pub/sterling...
Of embryos and vaccines
If you REALLY want to protect the unborn...
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Of embryos and vaccines
open.substack.com/pub/sterling...
open.substack.com/pub/sterling...
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Dear Ezra Klein, bodily autonomy is not a bargaining chip. What rights are you willing to give up? Let’s see you walk the talk. The burger is on me. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
Dear Ezra Klein, Bodily Autonomy Isn’t a Bargaining Chip
Let's see if you're willing to walk the talk
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Dear Ezra Klein, bodily autonomy is not a bargaining chip. What rights are you willing to give up? Let’s see you walk the talk. The burger is on me. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
Call it what it is:
Article III Judicial Branch: Section 3 TREASON
“Treason against the US, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”
He has declared war against Americans living in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles
Article III Judicial Branch: Section 3 TREASON
“Treason against the US, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”
He has declared war against Americans living in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles
He's telling us what he's doing. Using the military to suppress protest. At some point the opposition needs to listen to him and adjust strategy.
Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"
September 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Call it what it is:
Article III Judicial Branch: Section 3 TREASON
“Treason against the US, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”
He has declared war against Americans living in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles
Article III Judicial Branch: Section 3 TREASON
“Treason against the US, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”
He has declared war against Americans living in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles
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We are no longer at a “tipping point” or “an inflection point.” We are no longer “sliding” toward autocracy. Donald Trump no longer “aspires” to be an autocrat. Last week, Trump went full-bore authoritarian. The United States currently is not a functional democracy. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
The U.S. is not a Functional Democracy
Last week, Trump went full authoritarian
open.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
We are no longer at a “tipping point” or “an inflection point.” We are no longer “sliding” toward autocracy. Donald Trump no longer “aspires” to be an autocrat. Last week, Trump went full-bore authoritarian. The United States currently is not a functional democracy. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
oh my god, #EzraKlein is a complete and total waste of time. No one should listen to anything he says!
This @jessicavalenti.bsky.social piece about Ezra Klein's latest wrongness is great. I particularly enjoyed this: "Since first making the argument to fellow Times columnist Ross Douthat, Klein has defended his comments to a series of additional men" jessica.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...
September 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
oh my god, #EzraKlein is a complete and total waste of time. No one should listen to anything he says!
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Long-time autism quacks Dan Rossignol, MD & Richard E. Frye, MD promoted unsubstantiated claims spread by RFK Jr and his HHS. (Tylenol/acetaminophen, mitochondria, leucovorin/Folinic acid)
Frye's clinical trial at Arkansas Children's Hospital was terminated under suspicious circumstances:
Frye's clinical trial at Arkansas Children's Hospital was terminated under suspicious circumstances:
September 7, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Long-time autism quacks Dan Rossignol, MD & Richard E. Frye, MD promoted unsubstantiated claims spread by RFK Jr and his HHS. (Tylenol/acetaminophen, mitochondria, leucovorin/Folinic acid)
Frye's clinical trial at Arkansas Children's Hospital was terminated under suspicious circumstances:
Frye's clinical trial at Arkansas Children's Hospital was terminated under suspicious circumstances:
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The obituary of Eleanor Maguire by Georgina Ferry in The Lancet
“She kept emphasising that what the
hippocampus was involved in was the creation of something she called scenes”, says O’Keefe. “And we now see that she was right"
“She kept emphasising that what the
hippocampus was involved in was the creation of something she called scenes”, says O’Keefe. “And we now see that she was right"
September 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The obituary of Eleanor Maguire by Georgina Ferry in The Lancet
“She kept emphasising that what the
hippocampus was involved in was the creation of something she called scenes”, says O’Keefe. “And we now see that she was right"
“She kept emphasising that what the
hippocampus was involved in was the creation of something she called scenes”, says O’Keefe. “And we now see that she was right"
Mass delusion fueled by conspiracy, trolling, death cult #MAHA eugenicists, billionaires with phony eschatology, weirdo #AGI adherents, and megalomaniacs who promote false “mind uploading”. See @xriskology.bsky.social and @gilduran.com for further explanations.
defector.com/why-is-every...
defector.com/why-is-every...
Why Is Everyone Talking About The Damn Rapture Again? | Defector
Wake up, sheeple! It’s the end of the world. Everyone’s saying it. And by everyone, I mean a gazillion conservative content creators who made TikToks this past weekend warning everyone to be awake and...
defector.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Mass delusion fueled by conspiracy, trolling, death cult #MAHA eugenicists, billionaires with phony eschatology, weirdo #AGI adherents, and megalomaniacs who promote false “mind uploading”. See @xriskology.bsky.social and @gilduran.com for further explanations.
defector.com/why-is-every...
defector.com/why-is-every...
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Ben Shapiro's new book "is a perfect encapsulation of Brandolini’s law that the energy required to refute bullshit is orders of magnitude greater than what it takes to produce it."
Absolutely savage takedown of Shapiro from
@mattpolprof.bsky.social:
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ben-sha...
Absolutely savage takedown of Shapiro from
@mattpolprof.bsky.social:
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ben-sha...
Ben Shapiro’s Latest Book Adopts a Horrifying “Creators vs. Parasites” Worldview
Supposedly, the world is divided into good, noble “lions” and evil, grasping “scavengers.” Guess which one Ben thinks he is?
www.currentaffairs.org
September 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Ben Shapiro's new book "is a perfect encapsulation of Brandolini’s law that the energy required to refute bullshit is orders of magnitude greater than what it takes to produce it."
Absolutely savage takedown of Shapiro from
@mattpolprof.bsky.social:
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ben-sha...
Absolutely savage takedown of Shapiro from
@mattpolprof.bsky.social:
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ben-sha...
Ben Shapiro is a terrible writer.
September 21, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Ben Shapiro is a terrible writer.
My next blog post:
How to Maintain Your Sense of Self When Objective Reality Is Denied
How to Maintain Your Sense of Self When Objective Reality Is Denied
September 20, 2025 at 4:29 AM
My next blog post:
How to Maintain Your Sense of Self When Objective Reality Is Denied
How to Maintain Your Sense of Self When Objective Reality Is Denied
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RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism
RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism
WASHINGTON—Claiming that 100% of users experienced dangerous side effects as a result of wearing the contraceptive device, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly paused an amorous moment Thursday to issue a...
theonion.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism