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This is a good article. Nothing we didn't already know but a good summary of where some current research efforts are heading.

Unfortunately the reality of geography and random distribution of disability make it a low threat. This threat only works in electoral systems that adopt something like mixed-member proportional, where enough geographically distributed people can promote candidates that represent special...

Put me down on that list. Whatever works works, the details are not that important when it does work. You can figure this out afterward. It's not really plausible given I was in the best years of my life, content and driven in every respect, as well as never having experienced anything that...

Probably never as it would dramatically harm sales. Or not until there is an entirely better class of drugs developed that makes antidepressants obsolete anyway. Then it will probably be "of course everyone knew about it but it was worth it and anyway it's patients' fault because otherwise it...

So, in a sense: clickbait has invaded medicine? Sounds about right.

You kind of have to marvel at the twisted illogic in rejecting something that has been observed in millions on the grounds that you cannot see it in action and promote instead something that has not been observed in anyone and not only cannot be seen in action either but is guaranteed to never...

That is my interpretation as well. Everything is fair game and testimony of harm can be safely dismissed with prejudice since it is assumed that no harm is possible. This is the basis of "rousing reassurance": you can BS all you want as long as you BS with confidence, and don't hold back since...

I may be cynical, but I expect that most "skeptics" would see nothing wrong with using LP for ME because most don't really think there's anything wrong with us and so anything goes. The mistake sits at the very core of the issue: that everything done to us is by definition harmless, no matter...

So... in conclusion if people do something that they planned to do you can record that they did do the thing that they planned to do and then did? Clearly money well spent, unless I'm missing something here.

I don't even think it's worth thinking that far, to bother with the hollow substance of the rhetoric. The very premise that illness is a completely distinct and separate concept from disease is absurd. It is like arguing that music has nothing whatsoever to do with the instruments that create...

Ah, well, you always need someone to play devil's advocate, right? Even with ethics and morals, someone has to argue against them, I guess.

$ In the end, that's all this is about. There is buy-in into those ideas because $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. That's always the benefit, otherwise this would be nothing more than a fringe ideology with zero institutional support.

Lawsuits are definitely for later, when hindsight removes all suspension of disbelief. But definitely they are not the only legal tool available to us. In the end it is clear that we are removed all agency, given that numerous complaints are systematically dismissed with prejudice, which is...

Intent is irrelevant. Outcome is what matters. The outcome is harm on a massive scale, well-documented and supplemented by hundreds of thousands of complaints over several decades. There is a lot of research making it clear that continued discrimination is a disaster. What's encouraged is flawed...

I think it can be safely acknowledged that this far from true. It's the idea, certainly, in practice it's clearly not the case or we wouldn't even be here as a result of a complete breakdown in quality control. In our domain, those with the highest credibility have entirely bypassed all quality...

The whole psychosocial thing seems to be a magnet for the worst gullible people in the profession. They are the ones who in a time past would have railed against the germ theory of disease, would have been offended, OFFENDED, at the suggestion that their hands are dirty and that they should...

Makes no difference. If avoiding it made a difference I would be fine, The worse is with noise that bangs, clangs or however one can describe a hard-hitting noise. Doors slamming, something heavy dropping, metal or wood banging on other hard material, etc.

I'm pretty much back to my "normal" so I'm relatively OK now as far as noise is concerned. The noise was mostly my parents being careless and it seems they got it this time. I'm getting a little changes done in the house to reduce the noise and them being more careful about it, at least for a...

Comments on the original post were all censored. No commentary was published along. This was no debate, it was once more the irresponsible and uncritical airing of personal grievances by a delusional immoral man detached from reality and showing reckless disregard for the millions of lives he...