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Our cancellation survey has now closed. A big 'thank you' to all those who took part. Thanks to you we can start to understand the effects of cancel culture on mental health. We are grateful to @SpeechUnion and everyone who helped us promote the survey.

This week on “Heart & Mind with Dr. Dina McMillan” we’re going to be looking at the dangerous behaviors underlying the “Tickle vs Giggle” case in Australia that just removed everyone’s right to state verifiable facts and women’s rights to single sex spaces of any kind. (See @salltweets and @goodfoodgal, @Katherine_deves). The episode is going to be called “The War on Reality: Compelled Speech, Suppressed Facts and the Making of a Controlled Population”. The issues at critical for ALL of us, wherever we live. Please join us LIVE on Tuesday evening, 8PM Eastern Time (in the US), 10 AM in Australia! We’ll be here on X (@drdina1, @naomirwolf) AND on Rumble, Daily Clout, Facebook (the Daily Clout page) and GETTr.

I could not agree more. And the obsession with victimhood has completely destroyed higher education. We think that students are victimized by being exposed to ideas with which they disagree. And everyone who is not a white male is, by definition, a victim. telegraph.co.uk/gift/41e56fe01…

This is an important finding - therapy works less well for men than women for self-harm. Great to see the @BPSOfficial guidance cited as identifying likely improvements. It was authored by myself and @SeagerMJ, but with a huge amount of useful input from the BPS membership 🙏

Mental health professionals should read Carrie's account of her experiences with their services and learn from them. Well done Carrie for speaking out. So pleased that things have worked out well for you.

This account by @cwestonclark is harrowing. It’s also funny and unutterably sad. If you need convincing that the mental health industry has lost out way, then read this and come back to me I hope Carrie writes a book open.substack.com/pub/cwestoncla…

Here is another paper in a psychology journal that won't improve patient mental health.

Moral Narcissim & Deep Envy: Harnessing Psychology for Revolutionary Ends A discussion with Solid Ground and CTA criticaltherapyantidote.org/2026/05/09/mor…

Very emotional moment from @naomieppsbest . In this effort to speak honestly about what many clinicians and professionals have quietly witnessed, we have encountered people of remarkable integrity. Naomi is one of them. What is striking is not hatred, extremism, or cruelty — but the extraordinary social cost attached to deviation from ideological consensus. In this clip, Naomi reflects on losing relationships, fearing reputational consequences within her community, and having serious conversations with her family before publicly speaking up at all. And yet she spoke anyway. One of the hardest parts of this work is knowing that sometimes we cannot fully protect the people who step forward. We can offer support. We can offer friendship, community, conversation, and an audience willing to listen carefully. But we cannot always shield people from ostracization, reputational attacks, or the quiet social penalties that can follow dissent. That reality hurts. But courage does seem to be contagious. People like Naomi remind others that it is still possible to speak honestly, remain compassionate, and refuse to surrender one's conscience entirely to fear. We need more people like her in the field — not outside of it. #MentalHealth #Psychology #CriticalTherapyAntidote @ryanMcRogers @DiogenesInExile @OTI_USA @pgarfieldjaeger @PamelaParesky @slsatel @DrBretAlderman @nafeesalamphd @trgolden @anthony_rispo @KevWaldman @JamesEsses @TherapyFirstOrg @drdrew @DrPhil @JillianMichaels @jordanbpeterson @DrDaniS @JamesLNuzzo

What happens when we become convinced that being right makes us morally good, and that people who disagree must be morally bad? This week’s piece looks at moral blindspots among people and institutions that perceive themselves to be good. In which I pick on the (in)aptly named Good Law Project.

Considerable time and money is being spent delivering well-meaning wellbeing programmes in schools. Such programmes sound nice and make teachers feel good, but evidence of efficacy is often weak at best and many are actively making children less happy, healthy and resilient.

By me on the slow death of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion spectator.com/article/the-sl…

In this I set out a comparison between Sex-Affirming Care and Gender-Affirming Care. These two approaches rest on very different assumptions about the patient, the body, and the role of therapy. genspect.org/sex-affirming-…

Graham Linehan should never have been dragged through the courts in the first place. The real scandal is a system that wastes time on litigious nonsense driven by professional activists while serious crime goes unpunished. We need to kill cancel culture. Free speech cannot survive if the process becomes the punishment. This is why I asked Toby Young to review the laws that are stifling free speech so the next Conservative government can put an end to this wasting of our resources.

As you know, I face fierce opposition because I try to be as objective as possible. Not easy for a social scientist with colleagues who refuse to look beyond the Approved Narrative. I want to fix persistent social issues. Impossible while we refuse to identify them. I'm a fan of elephants, but not the ones in the room.

@EddieJamesTips Response: Then the belief is not based on evidence. To be based on evidence means you'd change it if new evidence emerged. So what is the belief based on?

3. What's the strongest argument against your position? Steelman it. 2. If you *felt* your belief was true but the evidence was overwhelmingly against it, would you still believe? 1. If your belief was false, would that make you a worse person?

Five Socratic-based questions to improve your thinking. 1/2 5. What would it take to change your mind? Be specific. 4. If your best reason for believing that was false, would you still believe? (That's called a "real reason check".)

Violent crime and mental health - lessons are not being learned open.substack.com/pub/almondtree… After losing my daughter in the circumstances I did, our country must and will be safer for all families. My meager help towards this goal for other families and ultimately our country is my life mission. No one must go through the pain my wife, my son, my extended family, friends and Grace’s colleagues, friends and their associated families have gone through. The butterfly effect of pain is insurmountable @KemiBadenoch @NeilDotObrien @rcpsych @DrLadeSmith @wesstreeting @10DowningStreet

Thank you @herandrews !! Some of us have been saying this for years, and it's a HUGE relief that it's finally going mainstream. We need to recognise that most of what we have been told about gender for decades - including masculinity - is garbage centreformalepsychology.com/male-psycholog…

Nearly 10,000 words in this expert review of depression, but barely any mention of depression in men. Anyone interested in male depression should read the @CentreMalePsych Position Statement on Male Depression centreformalepsychology.com/male-psycholog…