Did a Study Show Expressing Gratitude Improves Your Physical Health?
Dutch psychologists retaliated for my threatening their livelihood. I poked fun about advice from positive psychology gurus and the coaches they train not being based in science
Ungrateful men” (Love till death) Aldo Nicolaj wikimedia
This story is closely related to a previous Substack article, McMindful: Make money as a mindfulness trainer, no background or weekend retreat required. The same Dutch psychologists tried to get it squelched.
When originally published on April 11, 2017, this article provoked these Dutch psychologists (named in the article) to begin a vicious campaign to silence me with false accusations that I was making money by violating their copyright.
They accused me of copying what I considered junk to sell on a Shopify website in Canada. Why would I ever do that? They perjured themselves signing an oath that I stole their work and already sold it.
The US company WordPress is familiar with such abusive tactics and rejected these psychologists’ earlier demand that I take down blog posts that criticized positive psychology gurus, starting with this one. American bloggers are protected by the US doctrine of fair use. I was poking fun at…