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Is Self-Help a Cult? The Attention Economy and Slippery Slope of "Woo"

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Is Self-Help a Cult? The Attention Economy and Slippery Slope of "Woo"

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Forrest and Dr. Rick explore how well-intentioned self-help advice can drift away from science under the incentives of the attention economy, where overclaiming, alarmist framing, and “this one simple trick” outperforms nuance. They talk about how authorit...

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