Donovanable is a psychology student at one of ‘them librul schools’. She notes: “I’m an atheist feminist flexitarian. I cook, clean, sew, study occasionally, and fall flat on my face.” The following is her post.

I’ve had an eerie number of experiences this school year of enrolling in classes I’m very excited about–only to discover professors advocating vitamin megadoses, (really), or informing the class that being too rational would hamper our learning. I’m a psychology major, as I have mentioned before, and I want to go into practicing therapy. It’s why I blog anonymously, why I double-majored and take more than a full course-load.

But I want to do therapy that is proven to actually help people. Because you know, that’s the whole damn point. That means taking classes, and being in a program where I learn what that therapy is. That means professors who know the research, the data. That means when I have a professor telling me that ‘science is like religion’ because there’s evidence for a lot of stuff, and encouraging 4x the FDA dosage for fish oil to improve brains, I get pissed. I want to do something. So here I am. Doing something.

I’ve started a website to collect information on psychology programs at universities in the United States. It can be good or bad. The goal is a comprehensive list of reviews and experiences from skeptics who want to learn. Without alt-med. Without supernatural solutions.

You can find it here, at Evidence Based Education.

What can you do to help? You can spread the word. You can tell anyone you know about it. You can blog about it, talk about it, link to it.

Want to submit some information? There’s a contact link on the site, but:

You must have graduated from a US university with a major or minor in Psychology or in a Masters, Ph.d or Psy.d program in the last ten years,

OR be currently enrolled in one of the above programs.

That’s all! Let’s make it so the next generation of therapists gets a woo-free education!