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When encouraged to just make stuff up for years, people continue making stuff up until they're stopped. Hell, they're getting participation trophies for doing meaningless research so full throttle on the psychobabble. This is a parody of science.

How long until we see a trial on exorcism? I'm almost surprised no one tried that yet.

Is chronic self-slapping-to-the-face key to not saying stupid things? It may, it just may. Unless the real key is self-ass-kicking. Or it may be wearing a donkey hair toupee. It may be a lunar rock diet. Who knows? It takes years of advanced training to be a research scientist. And this is what...

Someone who already "knows" the conclusion and wants to promote it. As is tradition.

Uh, uh.

Oh boy. That's really bad. Looks like the response to mounting evidence of disaster is to double down on the worst aspects. I hope serious change happens soon before this gets out of hand.

I personally favor a theory of mind that makes prediction the core of how intelligence works, that predicting the future is the essential characteristic of intelligence. The brain constantly predicts things and adjusts its future predictions based on differences from those predictions. That's...

Clearly, if you are in prison, you are guilty of something. If you were not guilty, you would not have been imprisoned. So just confess and we can move on. If you don't confess, we will add charges for lack of remorse. If you show remorse, we may be more lenient, but you will remain imprisoned...

But going about it exactly the wrong way: bringing speculative personal beliefs of mental health into biology instead of bringing biology to explain the mental effects. And sorry but in the earlier part of that quote, the use of "knowledge" is completely wrong. Speculation and wild ideologies...

Bit of a tangent but it seems fitting that a toxic work environment would deliver toxic services. https://www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-performance/revealed-crisis-at-top-ccg-amid-claims-of-bullying-and-toxic-culture/7024480.article But clearly it's the vulnerable people begging for their lives...

Supply-side medicine: driven by the wants and beliefs of those managing and dispensing the services, rather than the needs of those who should benefit from them. There's a classic story in political science about the Soviet politburo, struggling through economic stagnation in the years before...

Seems like vexatious whining is a side-effect of researching CBT.

When Simon Wessely shoved a Hans Eysenck scandal under the rug

Removing a recommendation for being harmful after it was strongly objected to at the time for the harm it would promote would be an acknowledgement that the process by which it was approved would need to be evaluated, possibly massively reformed. That would be a massive wrench in the deployment...

That really has a "Malboro centre for the benefits of smoking research" vibe. Quite similar to the sugar industry promoting research on the evils of dietary fat. Just a happy coincidence that it happens to benefit their industry. Happy, happy coincidence.

Explaining made-up ideas usually takes the magic out of them. And when you need the magic part to support your work, trying to explain is usually not recommended. When demons and mysmia went out of fashion, it's been a struggle ever since to invent fictitious explanations that superficially...

Hey, if at first you don't succeed, try again 100 times or so over several decades. One day, for sure, they will show that the cancer personalities do exist and it is your shitty attitude that killed you. One day, you'll see, you'll see! (The year is 2459, Crawleybot#782 publishes the 99,999th...

I am not a fan of participation trophies, not even a bit. I am even less of a fan of sabotage trophies. HIV deniers do bring a lot of contribution to the AIDS debate. It is completely wrong and therefore not constructive debate, just like Wessely's weird obsessive beliefs.

Yup. The parallels are obvious. The common foundation is hubris and shamelessness. Promote your idea, no matter what reality says. If you push it long enough, you can substitute reality (as long as you have friends in high places). Before them few people were talking about fatigue. Now it's all...

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