IOW, people who are more compliant, less confrontational and disruptive. Less 'difficult'. Problem is that real change for the better is rarely...
The problem with fMRI is that it often doesn't answer a question so much as ask a whole bunch of new ones. There are usually too many factors...
Current BPS ideology = heads they win, tails everybody else loses. It is unfalsifiable, and immune to correction.
It is much worse than that. They are confusing reporting feeling better with feeling better, and hence with being better. Getting people to...
The main, and possibly only, genuine benefit of 'optimism' is that it is more socially acceptable and hence rewarded – it attracts more resources...
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Yep, the onus is on those making the claim to justify it.
Magical thinking is a powerful aphrodisiac.
Don't you dare stop being picky. :thumbup:
I think people like Fitzpatrick and the whole RCP crowd are just attention-seekers, who simply can't stand being ignored. They cannot do...
IIRC, Wessely has claimed that the placebo effect is one of the most powerful medicines we have, or something to that effect.
These guys do like playing the victim role, don't they.
This.
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