Bill Burr on watching TV with his wife

https://www.nature.com/articles/mp201553

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32802-7/fulltext

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0

Here are two academic meta analyses.

Here is a summary if you can’t be bothered to read it or if your statistics knowledge is rusty.

https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/articles/a-popular-theory-of-depression-wasnt-debunked-by-a-new-review-it-got-debunked-years-ago-363986

I apologize for my insults. I’ll delete my post.

All I’ll say is this. The BF Skinner framework of understanding addiction is outdated and tends to a reductive view of the problem - “it’s hormones or chemicals that’s causing my behavior”. Eli Lily is a pharmaceutical company that had been pushing this framework for understanding depression. You can guess what medications they produce.

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