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.

This dynamism and this treatment methodology are related to what was common to multiple other treatment methodologies. So Hanman brought this idea into homoeopathy, and he clubbed it with this similia similibus, that is, like cures like.

In the final part of my interview with Dr Sumaiya Shaikh, we discuss her work as a science communicator. She founded Altnews Science to challenge pseudoscience in India.

I proved myself wrong so many times, I became a sceptic.