The army has spent more than 500 million dollars on this and there's no evidence it does anything. There's no theoretical reason to think it would prevent PTSD because you can't prevent PTSD by telling people to hunt the good stuff and look on the bright side which are literally parts of this program. It was designed for 10 to 14 year old school kids it's sort of a universal program that supposedly could reduce their anxiety and depression so right off the bat you have sort of a giant lead like how are you going to take a program for 10 to14 year olds who reduce anxiety and depression and adapt that for 20 year olds about to go into a war zone? i didn't really find evidence to
Journalist, podcaster, and rapper Jesse Singal joins us to talk about his new book The Quick Fix, positive psychology (scam?), cancel culture in the media and academia (overblown?), Substack incentives, and lots more. Plus David and Tamler argue about the epistemology of ghosts.
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