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Patients always receive treatment in agreement with the best scientific evidence available, right? Well, no. Not really. Clinical practitioners seem to suffer from many of the cognitive biases that affect the rest of us, and treatment decisions are often much less science-based that we might like to think. Scott Lilienfeld joins Igor and Charles to discuss evidence-based practice in psychotherapy, the importance of doubting, clinical psychology’s dirty little secret, Scarlett Johansson’s brain, confirmation bias, how science really works, and why people just can’t let go of the idea that a full moon triggers werewolf-style behaviour. Igor reveals he learnt his English from TV detective ‘Columbo’, Scott discusses the fine art of planting seeds of doubt in conversations, and Charles learns from Abraham Lincoln that intellectual humility can ultimately be a path to earned intellectual confidence. Welcome to Episode 22. Special Guest: Scott Lilienfeld.

In this centennial year of Dr. Abram Hoffer's birth, we honor the immense accomplishments and pioneering work of this amazing physician, psychiatrist and scientist. With Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, Hoffer founded the Orthomolecular Medicine Society, and showed that vitamins and nutrition have far more beneficial and powerful effects on mental disease than any single or combination of dangerous pharmaceuticals, and do it without ANY negative side effects! He proved it in many published scientific papers, and on thousands of happy, recovered patients. Listen in for the information about nutritional and supplemnental healing, and for the accomplishments of this great man.