Gabor Maté’s Neuroscience Shortcut: When Low-Quality Evidence Meets High-Level Rhetoric (Patreon)

Gabor Maté’s Neuroscience Shortcut: When Low-Quality Evidence Meets High-Level Rhetoric

Exploring how Gabor Maté leans on non-replicating neuroscience to bolster his claims, plus a quick stop at Matt’s Correction Corner concerning Russian oligarchs. Sources Gabor Maté's Guardian article on authoritarianism. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/06/authoritarianism-roots-origin The original study. Kanai, R., Feilden, T., Firth, C., & Rees, G. (2011). Political orientations are correlated with brain structure in young adults. Current biology, 21(8), 677-680. More recent research. - Boekel, W., Wagenmakers, E. J., Belay, L., Verhagen, J., Brown, S., & Forstmann, B. U. (2015). A purely confirmatory replication study of structural brain-behavior correlations. cortex, 66, 115-133. - Kharabian Masouleh, S., Eickhoff, S. B., Maleki Balajoo, S., Nicolaisen-Sobesky, E., Thirion, B., & Genon, S. (2022). Empirical facts from search for replicable associations between cortical thickness and psychometric variables in healthy adults. Scientific reports, 12(1), 13286. Support the Show: If you like the show and want to support us, you can find us on Patreon, where we have a bunch of extra stuff. ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus Find Us Elsewhere: ► Twitter: @GurusPod ► The Podcast: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/ ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus ► Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DecodingTheGurus/