Knowledge Is Necessity

A piece in today's NY Times, Sorry, Strivers: Talent Matters , takes issue with the conventional wisdom, endorsed by NY Times columnist ...

 From August, last year ... "I excelled at every subject just for the purpose of excelling, not learning. And quite frankly, now I...

Yesterday’s piece, Brain Science and Recovery , ran through a list of some of my favorite psychiatric genes, which - quite ironically - may ...

My last two pieces - on psychiatrists behaving badly - diverted me from my true mission here at Knowledge is Necessity, namely providing foo...

On Saturday, I published a piece that said it is not such a good idea to claim to rebut (or for that matter refute or repudiate) Robert Whi...

In Oct last year, I began a series of pieces based on Robert Whitaker’s shot heard ‘round the world, his 2010 book “Anatomy of an Epidemic.”...

I run this every Veteran's Day and Memorial Day: This Veterans Day: Our men and women are returning from two wars. They have witnes...

I have been writing about mental health since 1999, but only with any basic level of understanding since 2003. That year and the previous on...

I just started reading Barbara Oakley’s 2007 “Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfr...

I just blew up one of my old mcmanweb articles on eating right, and replaced it with a new one. Following is an edited extract:   A 2003 ...