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What your membership does

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Funds the hunt. Most science outlets sit back and rewrite university press releases. We don’t. Our team spends hours digging through hundreds of journals to find the studies that didn’t come with a PR campaign attached. That takes time, and time costs money. Your subscription helps pay for it.

Why this matters

If you’ve been reading science coverage online lately, you’ve noticed two things getting worse fast.

The first is the AI slop problem. Half the “science news” Google now serves up is auto-generated summaries of summaries — chatbots regurgitating press releases that other outlets already regurgitated. There’s no reporter, no editor, no one who actually read the paper. Just an algorithm guessing at what a science article should sound like.

The second is the homogenization problem. The handful of outlets still doing real work are increasingly covering the same handful of topics — the safe ones, the ones that won’t get them in trouble with their advertisers or their audience. The research on politics, sex, drugs, religion, and human nature in its messier forms gets quietly ignored.

PsyPost is the alternative to both. We read the papers. We talk to the researchers. We cover what others won’t. And we tell you what the data actually says — including when it cuts against what you wanted to hear.

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— Eric

Frequently asked questions

I can read PsyPost for free. Why pay?
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What exactly do I get that free readers don’t?
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Is $2.99/month really enough to support the site?
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Will free articles disappear behind a paywall?
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