Defending Alcoholics Anonymous
Monday, May 30, 2022
Frequent answers I post on Reddit
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The Alcoholics Anonymous subreddit tends to get the same questions asked over and over again, so, since it’s considered rude to refer people...
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Response to “Does Alcoholics Anonymous Work” published by The Conversation
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I came across an article which criticizes AA using the in my opinion now-debunked 2014 book by Dodes . I have already dealt with why the Dod...
Thursday, April 14, 2022
All those anti-AA websites? They’re offline
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Back in the mid-2010s, there were a number of anti-AA websites online: http://morerevealed.com http://Stinkin-ThinkIn.com http://orange-...
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
In response to Stanton Peele’s FilterMag criticism of Cochrane 2020
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I initially ignored this article , since it was published by one FilterMag, not a particularly mainstream magazine, and one which a fellow W...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
The bogus 5% success rate
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Recently, someone asked how the “5% success rate” stat was made up. Here is my answer , edited to give more information and context. To summ...
Sunday, November 14, 2021
How The Sober Truth came up with its bogus 5% figure
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While there hasn’t been any mainstream press criticizing AA’s efficacy recently, I think, while Dodes’s figures are now outdated and discred...
Friday, September 10, 2021
Some other recent criticism of AA in the press
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I have found other criticism of AA in the mainstream press over the last year which I should address here in this blog. Naltrexone redux A r...
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