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Adam Omary
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Adam Omary
@AdamOmaryPhD
Research Fellow @HumanProgress @CatoInstitute. Psychology PhD @Harvard.
Katılım Temmuz 2020
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Women given testosterone made significantly fairer offers leading to less conflict.
Women who believed they got testosterone (placebo effect) acted more selfishly and aggressively.
Sergio Ferrero@calotonterias
Darles testosterona a las mujeres hace que se comporten de manera más justa y menos conflictiva. Sin embargo, las mujeres que creen que han tomado testosterona —pero que en realidad han tomado placebo— se comportan de manera más agresiva y más injusta.
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Folk-economic beliefs persist not because people are irrational, but because they are reasoning with tools that evolved for cooperation in small bands with scarce resources.
The challenge for modern societies is to build policies that work with—rather than against—the grain of human psychology.
humanprogress.org/why-our-econom…
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A must-read to understand the incentives behind student disability diagnoses, and why it might be good that private schools are less likely to take students with diagnoses than public.
I also discussed this a bit here:
open.substack.com/pub/nealmcclus…
Cato Institute@CatoInstitute
The rise of ADHD isn't driven by technology or better screening. It's driven by incentives for overdiagnosis. Schools get more funding, doctors get billable visits, patients get accommodations, and students get cognitive stimulants — all by calling ordinary behavior "hyperactivity." The result: overmedication, wasteful spending, and pathological labels, warn Cato’s @AdamOmaryPhD and @dr4liberty. ow.ly/1pqr50Z1aMi
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The rise of ADHD isn't driven by technology or better screening. It's driven by incentives for overdiagnosis.
Schools get more funding, doctors get billable visits, patients get accommodations, and students get cognitive stimulants — all by calling ordinary behavior "hyperactivity."
The result: overmedication, wasteful spending, and pathological labels, warn Cato’s @AdamOmaryPhD and @dr4liberty.
ow.ly/1pqr50Z1aMi
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This will be an academic talk rethinking the geometric origin of Dark Energy in light of Lovelock’s theorem and the recent DESI results challenging the Cosmological Constant formalism.
Seating Preference will be given to members of the Karch group and Math & Physics Depts.
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Giving a physics talk on Dark Energy at @UTAustin in the Karch Seminar.
DATE: Tues, May 19, 2-3pm
TITLE: "From Dark to Geometric Energy: Equivariant Distortion in Geometric Unity"
PLACE: UTexas Austin,
Physics, Math & Astronomy Bldg.
Room 9.222
2515 Speedway,
Austin TX, 78712
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"That's how we create the most flourishing world possible. May the best ideas win."
Cato Institute President and CEO Peter Goettler joins @spuri on the #RegulatingAI podcast to discuss the benefits of AI, the risks of overregulation, and why the market is the best regulator of all.
youtu.be/jZqUMzH26VY
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Autism was once a rare and severe diagnosis. Now, 1 in 31 children are labeled “on the spectrum” as billions of dollars are flooded into autism therapy. New for @NRO with @dr4liberty: nationalreview.com/magazine/2026/…
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My colleague, @AdamOmaryPhD and I have this new piece up at @NRO @CatoHealth @MWChapman nationalreview.com/magazine/2026/…
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The Perfect Storm for ADHD Overdiagnosis: Screen time gets the blame, but the increase in diagnoses comes more from subjective criteria interacting with financial incentives | @AdamOmaryPhD & @dr4liberty
thedispatch.com/article/adhd-o…
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"Policymakers should stop structuring schools, insurers, and healthcare systems so that people must acquire a medical diagnosis to receive help, accommodations, or reimbursement." New from @AdamOmaryPhD and me. thedispatch.com/article/adhd-o…
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Put boys in a room and tell them to sit still for six hours, and a predictable share of them will fail, not because they are mentally ill but because they are boys…with @dr4liberty for @thedispatch: thedispatch.com/article/adhd-o…
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Fascinating @WSJopinion article from my colleague @AdamOmaryPhD about how changes in Obamacare's reimbursement incentives (over 2008-2014) for mental health may have help fuel a boom in prescribing psychiatric medication beyond what is healthy. Antidepressant usage among college students has skyrocketed from 9% in 2007 to 30% in 2026. This line really stood out: "We are running a large uncontrolled experiment on the developing brains of millions of young people, and we won’t know the full results for decades."
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"Greater reliance on independent counseling practices, direct-pay therapy, peer-support networks, and other alternatives less dependent on insurance could help restore balance and flexibility in mental health care." @CatoHealth cato.org/blog/psychothe… via @CatoInstitute
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The economics of antidepressant prescribing:
“federal law created an incentive structure that makes psychiatric medication the default for tens of millions of Americans who might be better served by therapy, lifestyle intervention or no clinical intervention at all.” — @adamomaryphd
Gift link: wsj.com/opinion/behind…
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"Recent spikes in anxiety, ADHD, and other diagnoses have more than a little to do with economic incentives."
So excited to see @CatoInstitute's @AdamOmaryPhD in @WSJ!!!
"Ideally, increased spending on mental-health care would yield better mental-health outcomes. Instead we have seen the opposite."
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The crisis of overdiagnosis and overmedication is driven by perverse financial incentives. There is no excuse for the NIH reporting that HALF of all young people are mentally ill. There is no excuse for 30% being on psychiatric medication. wsj.com/opinion/behind…
Mikhaila Peterson@MikhailaFuller
This psych med neurological damage problem isn’t political. It’s an epidemic and it’s hitting everyone.
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Much of the mental health crisis is driven by perverse financial incentives for overdiagnosis: wsj.com/opinion/behind…
Anders Sørensen@_AndersSorensen
9 minutes on psychiatric drug withdrawal in front of representatives from HHS, FDA, CDC & SAMHSA. I talk about ... why antidepressant withdrawal keeps getting mistaken for relapse, ... why hyperbolic tapering matters, ... and how we've been here before, repeating the same mistake we made with benzodiazepines and opioids. This conversation is finally reaching the institutions capable of changing guidelines and clinical practice.
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