Dr. Steven Novella

with the promise that it's gonna cure your child who has some developmental disorder, whatever it is, and based upon a really thin justification without good backing in science.

And so this feels similar.

First of all, the whole idea that we're gonna use rewards to train these behaviors out of these kids sounds really simplistic.

and I just don't like the one simplistic trick or hack that's gonna cure this or significantly improve this complex problem.

It has all of the issues with the psychomotor patterning industry where they're advising more and more hours that becomes all consuming.

There's little oversight, and the evidence base is mixed at best, is highly problematic, and is almost certainly not as good as the proponents are saying it is, just looking at the patterns of evidence.

But they're also not getting schooling, which I think is probably gonna have a bigger detriment.

You can't just make a bucket of money available without really strict controls and oversight and evidence and all that stuff.

So that sounds like that's what happened here.

Here's a bunch of money.

It means well, and I'm not saying that these children don't need services and et cetera and can't benefit from interventions, but it just becomes a scam.

You're creating the scam by just making all the money available without oversight.

All right.

Thanks, Kara.

Jay, I understand there's some problems with this climate change database.

Climate refugees.

Well, people.

Climate refugees.

I've heard, I've seen climate change deniers work those kind of errors both ways, right?

If you're over-predicting, they say, see, they were cheating.