r/skeptic • u/Budget_Shallan • 25d ago

💩 Misinformation Neuroscientist podcaster with 20+ hours of ADHD content discovers it MIGHT be genetic "but there are too many variables to separate"!!!

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u/iamthewaffler 25d ago

Yes if anyone wasn't aware Huberman is very long past having any substantive idea what he's talking about. That may have been true at one point, but hasn't been true for a long time.

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u/ReElectNobody 25d ago

For context, he really lost all credibility when he started speaking authoritatively on dopamine. It was immediately clear to everyone actually working in related fields that he's more interested in being a monetized science-adjacent influencer spreading mis and disinformation than furthering the actual science.

His dopamine views are beyond pseudoscience and marked the beginning of his downfall, imo.

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u/Ghost10-01 25d ago

Why are his dopamine views pseudoscience? Can you elaborate? I was diagnosed with ADHD and I thought his content made sense to me.

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u/ZZ9ZA 25d ago

That’s exactly the most dangerous kind of pseudoscience garbage! The stuff that “sounds reasonable” until a few years later you have Joe Rogan and RFk Jr.

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u/comfortablybum 25d ago

Here is a post from a year ago about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/cogsci/s/Zx7vzLA0G7

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u/RobotVandal 25d ago

The top comment is observing that he seems to know what he's talking about.

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u/Asparagus_Syndrome_ 25d ago

ive gone through that thread

it doesnt really say much to counter his points

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u/AppointmentNaive2811 25d ago

Someone speaking with confidence about things above your level of knowledge are always going to "sound reasonable". That's kind of the foundation of disinformation