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Sigmund Freud was a cocaine enthusiast who built an unfalsifiable theoretical system from a sample size of upper-class Viennese women, declared it a universal science of the mind, and spent the next four decades defending it against all comers with the ferocity of a man who knew, on some level,
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Emil Kraepelin sat in an asylum in Dorpat, Estonia, in the 1880s, watching patients the way a botanist watches plants. He did not treat them. He did not analyze their dreams or excavate their childhoods. He watched them, recorded their symptoms, tracked the course of their illness over months and
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Willow bark tea has been used for pain relief for at least 3,500 years. Sumerian clay tablets from around 2000 BCE reference it. The Ebers Papyrus from ancient Egypt prescribes it. Hippocrates recommended chewing willow bark for fever and pain in the fifth century BCE. The mechanism proposed by
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The Babylonians sorted people by birth month. The Greeks sorted them by bodily fluid. The Indians sorted them by elemental constitution. The Chinese sorted them by birth year and celestial stem. The Maya sorted them by position in a 260-day sacred calendar. The Norse carved runes for infants based on
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Scorpio season doesn’t make you intense. The planet Mercury has no opinion about your commute. The alignment of celestial bodies at the moment of birth exerts roughly the same gravitational influence on a newborn as the obstetrician standing three feet away. Astrology, as a causal mechanism, is nonsense. This
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Every literate person under forty knows astrology is fake. They will tell you this while taking an SSRI prescribed on the basis of a symptom checklist that has never once been validated against a blood test, a brain scan, or a genetic marker. The diagnostic manual that governs American mental