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Read more about the article Homosexuality is a mental illness

Homosexuality is a mental illness

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:26. January 2023
  • Post category:Psychiatry

To be precise, exclusive homosexuality is. But let's backtrack a bit. Scott Alexander has a new piece out that begins with this disclaimer: CONTENT NOTE: This essay contains sentences that…

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Does school make students kill themselves?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:15. January 2023
  • Post category:Education/Psychiatry

I know, I know. It's fashionable to hate on formal education in the rationalist community. Here's an obligatory Twitter poll: And there's even some push-back in the funny article Why…

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Read more about the article Drug users vs. drug abusers

Drug users vs. drug abusers

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:12. December 2022
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Medicine/Psychiatry

Drugs are bad mmk? Well, are they? The go-to argument involves looking at drug abusers. It's hard to say something positive about drug abuse in general. Everybody has a story…

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A theory of Ashkenazi genius: intelligence and mental illness

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:11. November 2022
  • Post category:Genetics / behavioral genetics/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Psychiatry

I want to put together a theory to explain a putative phenomenon: Ashkenazi Jews have more geniuses relative to non-Jewish Europeans (gentiles) than one would expect based on their average…

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Read more about the article African IQs and mental retardation

African IQs and mental retardation

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:27. October 2022
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Psychiatry

This one comes up a lot when we discuss the dire realities of the average intelligence levels seen in Sub-Saharan African countries: If the mean IQs are 70, wouldn't that…

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Read more about the article Older fathers bad, paternal age effects vindicated?

Older fathers bad, paternal age effects vindicated?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:10. September 2022
  • Post category:Psychiatry/Reproductive genetics

Since the 1930s, people are getting older and older before having children, as the importance of careers and education to people seems to increase without stop. As older people are…

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Read more about the article The Mensa fallacy

The Mensa fallacy

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:14. August 2022
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Psychiatry

Back in 2015 at ISIR, a researcher gave a presentation about mental illness and intelligence, reporting it was elevated at high intelligence levels, along with all kinds of other issues.…

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Read more about the article Psychotics are bad, anti-psychotics are good

Psychotics are bad, anti-psychotics are good

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:11. July 2022
  • Post category:Criminology/Psychiatry

Remember this guy? His name is Noah Esbensen. Actually, he is not a big deal outside of Denmark, but he made a brief stir in the media by going into…

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Read more about the article Unnatural hair color really is a danger zone marker (new study out)

Unnatural hair color really is a danger zone marker (new study out)

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:16. June 2022
  • Post category:Psychiatry

Probably many of you have seen this meme about aposematic hair color: For those not into memes: the idea is that poisonous animals advertise their dangerousness by bright colors to…

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Read more about the article The genetics of mental illness

The genetics of mental illness

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:12. May 2022
  • Post category:Genomics/intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Psychiatry

In popular discourse and the media, the debate is between those who recognize significant genetic causation in mental illnesses versus the status quo blank slate people who leave all such…

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