Stuart Vyse
@stuartvyse.bsky.social
Armchair behavioral scientist. Columnist @SkeptInquirer magazine,
"marvelous writer and clear thinker" —Michael Shermer. THE USES OF DELUSION (2022). Room Rater 10/10. stuartvyse.com
"marvelous writer and clear thinker" —Michael Shermer. THE USES OF DELUSION (2022). Room Rater 10/10. stuartvyse.com
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Stuart Vyse
@stuartvyse.bsky.social
· Dec 18
I created a starter pack for people and organizations that promote science, reason, critical thinking, and skepticism on Bluesky. This is a work in progress—apologies to folks I've missed—but it's a start. go.bsky.app/4RVUw3n
My latest column for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social, "Profound Autism and Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Neglected Resource," is now available in Spanish in Pensar magazine: "Autismo profundo y terapia electroconvulsiva: un recurso desatendido" pensar.org/2025/12/auti...
Autismo profundo y terapia electroconvulsiva: un recurso desatendido | Pensar
Es propio de películas de terror. El tratamiento de electroshock, o lo que hoy se conoce como terapia electroconvulsiva (TEC), se representó por primera vez ...
pensar.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My latest column for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social, "Profound Autism and Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Neglected Resource," is now available in Spanish in Pensar magazine: "Autismo profundo y terapia electroconvulsiva: un recurso desatendido" pensar.org/2025/12/auti...
Grad school is stressful. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
UC Berkeley PhD student facing felony charges over $46K in intentional damage
The 26-year-old student was arrested on Nov. 12 at Cory Hall on campus, police said.
www.sfgate.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Grad school is stressful. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
Least surprising headline of the day. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Expand Presidential Power
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Least surprising headline of the day. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
More straight talk from @nbtiller.bsky.social "MAHA Isn’t Denying Science: It’s Doing Something Much Worse" skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/ma...
MAHA Isn’t Denying Science: It’s Doing Something Much Worse | Skeptical Inquirer
A broken clock is right twice a day. MAHA’s record on health policy is far less prolific. Still, the movement’s scattergun approach to wellness occasionally ...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
More straight talk from @nbtiller.bsky.social "MAHA Isn’t Denying Science: It’s Doing Something Much Worse" skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/ma...
My latest column for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social is up: "Profound Autism and Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Neglected Resource" skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/pr...
Profound Autism and Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Neglected Resource | Skeptical Inquirer
It is the stuff of horror movies. Electroshock treatment, or what is now known as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), was first portrayed on screen in the 1948 ...
skepticalinquirer.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My latest column for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social is up: "Profound Autism and Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Neglected Resource" skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/pr...
A moving, personal, and searingly honest piece by Michelle Cottle about the challenges of eldercare in Trump's America. "It is often compared to parenting, but ... With a frail parent, there is no sense of guiding someone toward a bright future." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
A moving, personal, and searingly honest piece by Michelle Cottle about the challenges of eldercare in Trump's America. "It is often compared to parenting, but ... With a frail parent, there is no sense of guiding someone toward a bright future." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
My Skeptical Inquirer article "Worse Than Murder on Fifth Avenue" has been translated into Spanish. "Peor que un asesinato en la Quinta Avenida" circuloesceptico.org/articulos/pe...
Peor que un asesinato en la Quinta Avenida – Círculo Escéptico
circuloesceptico.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My Skeptical Inquirer article "Worse Than Murder on Fifth Avenue" has been translated into Spanish. "Peor que un asesinato en la Quinta Avenida" circuloesceptico.org/articulos/pe...
The @center4inquiry.bsky.social condemns the anti-vaxx revision of the CDC website, calling it a "shameful dereliction." centerforinquiry.org/news/cfi-con...
Shameful Dereliction: CFI Condemns Revision of CDC Website to Suggest Autism-Vaccine Link | Center for Inquiry
As multiple outlets reported today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its website about vaccines and autism to include several fa ...
centerforinquiry.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The @center4inquiry.bsky.social condemns the anti-vaxx revision of the CDC website, calling it a "shameful dereliction." centerforinquiry.org/news/cfi-con...
My copy of The Calculation of Volume III arrived as promised on November 18. I can't wait to see what Tara Selter is up to now. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
She Has Taken 30 Years to Write a 7-Part Novel About 1 Day. It’s a Sensation.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My copy of The Calculation of Volume III arrived as promised on November 18. I can't wait to see what Tara Selter is up to now. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
This is not skepticism. It is medical malpractice. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
C.D.C. Changes Website to Reflect Kennedy’s Vaccine Skepticism
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is not skepticism. It is medical malpractice. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
Oh, my. Another classic study we've been teaching for years may have been fabricated. The author asserts that the central claims of the book, When Prophecy Fails, "are false, and that the authors knew they were false." h/t @retractionwatch.com onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Oh, my. Another classic study we've been teaching for years may have been fabricated. The author asserts that the central claims of the book, When Prophecy Fails, "are false, and that the authors knew they were false." h/t @retractionwatch.com onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Ten years ago today.
This is what we wear in France; Le Bleuet (Corn Flower).
It represents solidarity with our military and the victims of terrorism. So today we are thinking of the 132 people killed in the Bataclan Attack on 13th November 2015 in Paris.
It represents solidarity with our military and the victims of terrorism. So today we are thinking of the 132 people killed in the Bataclan Attack on 13th November 2015 in Paris.
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Ten years ago today.
Reposted by Stuart Vyse
RIP
March 1, 1793-November 12, 2025
March 1, 1793-November 12, 2025
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
RIP
March 1, 1793-November 12, 2025
March 1, 1793-November 12, 2025
Watching the great Lesley Manville in "Phantom Thread" tonight. This appears on her Wikipedia page: "Manville's sister Brenda, nine years her senior, died of a brain tumour. Her sister's husband and two daughters died of Huntington's disease." Life can be an engine for art and art a balm for life.
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Watching the great Lesley Manville in "Phantom Thread" tonight. This appears on her Wikipedia page: "Manville's sister Brenda, nine years her senior, died of a brain tumour. Her sister's husband and two daughters died of Huntington's disease." Life can be an engine for art and art a balm for life.
I guess we've given up on the Nobel Peace Prize bid.
Breaking news: President Trump says he will direct the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China.
The announcement signals a reversal of decades of United States nuclear policy.
The announcement signals a reversal of decades of United States nuclear policy.
Trump announces plans to test nuclear weapons, just before meeting with China’s Xi
The president said he wanted testing to occur “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, raising the pressure on Beijing as he prepared to meet his Chinese counterpart.
wapo.st
October 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I guess we've given up on the Nobel Peace Prize bid.
Reposted by Stuart Vyse
Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977
October 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977
Now that the @nytimes.com has swallowed and killed the beautiful little Audm, would someone please launch a new Audm-like app? This has been a very disappointing catch-and-kill operation. IYKYK
October 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Now that the @nytimes.com has swallowed and killed the beautiful little Audm, would someone please launch a new Audm-like app? This has been a very disappointing catch-and-kill operation. IYKYK
No.
Is it possible for some people to hear Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car when they’re driving, driving in their car, and not sing it at the top of their lungs?
October 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
No.
Last week, I got a little sentimental about a person I knew many years ago. medium.com/@stuartvyse/...
One That Got Away
That’s me with long hair tucked behind my ears and a bandana around my neck, sporting a blue work shirt and ridiculously short cut-off…
medium.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Last week, I got a little sentimental about a person I knew many years ago. medium.com/@stuartvyse/...
"Improving Psychological Science through Adversarial Collaboration," my latest "Behavior & Belief" column for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/im...
Improving Psychological Science through Adversarial Collaboration | Skeptical Inquirer
According to an annual Pew Research Center poll, confidence in scientists has declined since the pandemic. Those who reported having “not too much/none at a ...
skepticalinquirer.org
September 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"Improving Psychological Science through Adversarial Collaboration," my latest "Behavior & Belief" column for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/im...
Reposted by Stuart Vyse
If you didn’t know, Mehmet Oz has a financial stake in the company iHerb which sells: folinic acid supplements (folinic acid = leucovorin)
The lies about Tylenol, autism, and this “treatment” are ALL part of their grift.
The lies about Tylenol, autism, and this “treatment” are ALL part of their grift.
September 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
If you didn’t know, Mehmet Oz has a financial stake in the company iHerb which sells: folinic acid supplements (folinic acid = leucovorin)
The lies about Tylenol, autism, and this “treatment” are ALL part of their grift.
The lies about Tylenol, autism, and this “treatment” are ALL part of their grift.
Reposted by Stuart Vyse
"A republic, if you can keep it"
-- Benjamin Franklin
-- Benjamin Franklin
September 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
"A republic, if you can keep it"
-- Benjamin Franklin
-- Benjamin Franklin
A common sight in France that rarely happens in the US: children 4-6 yrs old gleefully running at top speed without any effort by their parents to stop them.
September 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
A common sight in France that rarely happens in the US: children 4-6 yrs old gleefully running at top speed without any effort by their parents to stop them.
In my latest article for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social I take stock of my first decade writing the "Behavior & Belief" column. skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/a-...
A Decade of Writing for Skeptical Inquirer | Skeptical Inquirer
The anniversary slipped by without my noticing it, but recently, while hunting down one of my earlier articles, I was reminded that my first online piece fo ...
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August 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
In my latest article for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social I take stock of my first decade writing the "Behavior & Belief" column. skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/a-...