Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea 🇨🇦Clinical Psychologist. Adjunct Assistant Professor. Author. Dr. Jonathan N. He was the 2022 recipient of the John G.

Stea is a full-time practicing clinical psychologist and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary. He’s a two-time winner of the University of Calgary’s Award for Excellence in Clinical Supervision and co-editor of the book Investigating Clinical Psychology: Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies. Dr. Stea has published extensively, with

regular contributions to Scientific American and Psychology Today, among other outlets, and has appeared on numerous mainstream television and radio shows, as well as podcasts. Paterson Award from the Psychologists’ Association of Alberta, an annual award presented for the exceptional contribution to portraying psychological knowledge to the public. His new book, Mind the Science: Saving your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry, is now available to order: www.JonathanStea.com

07/07/2025
A person who views their health with a scientific lens is advantaged. Wellness grifters hold less power over those who c...
07/05/2025

A person who views their health with a scientific lens is advantaged.

Wellness grifters hold less power over those who can see through their charades.

“He’s a professor and has a man bun (this is irrelevant, but people like to make this observation as if to disqualify hi...
07/03/2025

“He’s a professor and has a man bun (this is irrelevant, but people like to make this observation as if to disqualify him from knowing things).”

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Determining pseudoscience is a probabilistic endeavor: The more warning signs that you hear and see, the greater the lik...
06/30/2025

Determining pseudoscience is a probabilistic endeavor: The more warning signs that you hear and see, the greater the likelihood that you’ve unearthed something pseudoscientific.

But of all the pseudoscientific warning signs (I describe nine of them in my book, Mind the Science), this one perhaps carries the most weight: claims that are completely divorced from the broader scientific literature.

For example, in the case of homeopathy, the “law of minimum dose” violates fundamental principles in pharmacology.

Another textbook example is energy medicine. It’s among the most confused and griftiest pseudoscientific approaches in alternative medicine because it purports the existence of a kind of human energy field that can be manipulated by energy healing practices, such as Reiki.

If this were true, it would knock the bottom out of the entire field of physics. No such energy field has ever been found to exist, and its discovery would spark an existential crisis in every university physics department worldwide.

Here is yet another example from the bowels of social media:

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