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Well I’ve just finished the phones are actually good episode. Brilliant, enlightening episode. Really made me think, and I listened on my phone! Point proved!

I miss the old days when Sarah and Michael hosted this podcast together. More debunking of pop culture and historical myths was happening, whereas now it’s more just listening to a chat between friends which isn’t as informative or interesting. Such a shame!

Listened to a few different episodes across the years produced and so much rampant disinformation with absolutely no sources, evidence, OR credentials to back any of it up. Saying that sociopathy and psychopathy are basically viewed as the same thing when that’s clearly (and very easily proven) not true, then likening borderline personality disorder to psychopathy as well. Seriously, you have no idea what you are talking about and clearly aren’t interested in fact checking. Pretty disgraceful, especially when you are contributing to the vilification of people with mental health disorders (like BPD). If you had done even the most basic level of research you would have found that psychopathy is very much real, documented, and studied. From that (readily available) research that has amassed over years, you would have also found that professionals within that field have been saying for years that there are far more psychopaths that are not violent than the opposite and that people high in psychopathy traits do perform better in some functions than people low in psychopathy (eg politicians, finance, sales etc).

I am unsubscribing due to the dangerous misinformation given out during the ‘phones are good’ episode. As a practicing child psychologist, I was shocked and appalled to hear the biased and utterly baseless perspective from your guest. We are of course not concerned about phone use for empowered and mobilised young people who are seeking to dismantled the status quo through better visibility and access to a platform. As the hosts well know, this is a very very small proportion of the young people online, and the episode completely disregards the devastating and proven impact phone use can have on adolescent mental health and functioning. Shame on you both.