Please keep up you Good Work!
Sincerely,
Afshin Nejat
]]>It is impossible to explain the difference between something that is science, and something that is pseudoscience, unless the audience has an understanding of the scientific method.
They don’t teach that in schools, nope. That hardcover books is a good 600 pages, and would require it’s own course. What the heck are they teaching in science courses anyway o.0?
I tried to explain why psychiatry was a pseudoscience to someone who was willing to hear me out recently. They told me “Don’t all other doctors make subjective diagnosis, you can’t test for some autoimmune diseases right? Are diagnostic tests actually that critical to medicine?”. They had one more surprise i wasn’t prepared for, “What’s the difference between the Mind and the Brain, a mental disorder is the same thing as a brain dysfunction right?”
So, subjective and Objective aren’t self evident. A profession which studies subjective symptoms and calls them their own disease is indistinguishable from a field like neurology, which study’s nerve and brain function using functional and structural diagnostic tests, and considers a disease a physically detectable malfunction or pathology.
The difference between “You have depression, it’s chronic, take this antidepressant, see you next month” and “Your QEEG was funny, and the blood work came back with a B-12 Deficiency, so you need to take this vitamin shot of B-12, and you should make a full recovery”
Although, I am not too bothered by this ultimately. The field of psychiatry is dying from severe lack of recruitment – world wide. Psychiatry will be completely gone in the US within 25 years if this rate stays constant, and it’s increasing 🙂 [1].
In the end, some bad people get away with very bad things, but things eventually work themselves out. Pseudoscience can’t stand up to rapid technological advancement in the other fields, and people really do want to be good and create something better.
[1] http://ap.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=52351
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After Sandy Hook: how psychiatrists will become policemen
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/after-sandy-hook-how-psychiatrists-will-become-policemen/