Episode 128: Don’t Eat That: Raw, Carnivore, and Only Air Diets…

Psychosocial Distancing

Episode 128 of our book read/podcast covering major topics in various fields of psychology moves us into a continuation of the Year of Clickbait with PSEUDOSCIENCE! This Spring we are going to be talking about pseudoscience. Who believes it? Why do they believe it? Is there a kernel of truth to some of the pseudoscientific beliefs people have? And more…

In this episode Daniel and Thomas shift from things you shouldn’t drink to things you shouldn't eat. The raw meat diet, the carnivore diet, and breatharians all fall into our crosshairs as pseudoscience. Are they as bad as the last things we’ve discussed? Are they as weird as urine therapy? Probably not as weird, but just as potentially harmful as the rest. So, just like with bleach, there are some things we shouldn’t be consuming.

Warning: This episode does contain some graphic information and some gross content and all season we will be talking about some less than savory topics.

PSD Website: https://psychosocialdistancingpodcast.com/

Thomas' Webpage: https://sexography.org/

Thomas' Twitter: https://twitter.com/TBrooks_SexPsy

Daniel's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScienceInChaos

Intro and Outro Theme and Interlude Jingle by Jordan Jones

Ask Psychology Question of the Week: For those who have an inner monologue for near 100% of the time, how do you deal with it?

Articles and some basic resources

https://chgeharvard.org/harvard-study-on-the-carnivore-diet/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/201708/breathariansor-believe-anythings

Video on Breatharians: https://youtu.be/WWRniMqhr00