Cara Santa Maria joins us for an riveting conversation on the science and pseudoscience of mental health and therapy in the context of the book she and Stephen Hupp recently compiled and edited called Pseudoscience in Therapy.

Cara is a science communicator and is now a clinical psychologist working with cancer patients. She is the host of her podcast called Talk Nerdy and also a co-host on the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe

Dr Jonathan Stea is a clinical psychologist in Alberta, Canada, and has recently written a book called Mind the Science. We talk about how the wellness industry and its many pseudoscientific practices are exploiting your mental health to make money off you. If you have ever wondered about reiki, energy healing, accupuncture, Goop and others and how legitimate their claims are, you need to watch this video.

Adrienne has been quite an active member of the skeptics community in the US and Canada and is an advocate for awareness of Tourette's Syndrome, especially for teachers.

What do all the letters of LGBTQIA+ stand for? Are there only two genders or a spectrum? Is being transgender a real thing? What are the pronouns we should use? Should we use the pronouns at all? Is being queer natural? What does the science say? What kind of person is intersex? Sayantan Dutta, a non-binary activist and journalist, answers all these questions and more.

Janyce Boynton used to be a facilitator who helped non-verbal autistic people communicate in a method called facilitated communication. She soon discovered that facilitated communication was a horrible scam taking advantage of these vulnerable people and their families. Now, it also goes by names like Rapid Prompting Method, Assisted Typing, Spelling to Communicate, and many more. So she set to work exposing the whole deal. This is her story.