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Was it, though? Was it? Or did you just managed to get people to answer questionnaires slightly differently? Yeah, that one. Modern phrenology 2.0 is basically vague Dungeons & Dragons traits and not a single measurement, so literally worse. To pick the best cherries, it's important to plant...

More of a general use of the term in how it's applied to chronic illness some perceive as psychosomatic. There is this widespread idea that, since there is "nothing actually wrong" with us, absence of evidence being used as affirmative evidence, then all we pretty much lack is something that can...

[Citation needed] Literally not possible to determine that symptoms are psychosomatic, so might as well say that "Thetans have become increasingly prevalent among adolescents", which is the same thing but with a story about alien galactic overlords, ghosts, big explodey war and stuff. Oh, boy...

This is an impressive amount of cope and grasping at straws, and as usual they simply can't consider the reverse causality, even though it's far more plausible. It's always "weird psychosocial stuff affecting biology" rather than "biology impacts psychosocial stuff as they are presently...

Could be x, could also be not x. S C I E N C E. That's complete nonsense and obviously made-up to support not the model, not because it makes sense or there is any data supporting it. They keep trying to describe our subjective experience but never actually listen to what we tell them of our...

The bar is so low that it can be met by sleeping through or passed out drunk. It's basically as if businesses consisted only of powerpoint presentations. No need to do anything after that, just the concept of a business idea. It all feels like a sick joke, and it sure is.

Not at all. The BPS folks have zero lived experience, they are merely (very) poorly speculating about the subjective experience of others, retroactively attributing things exactly backwards, whereas some of the other terms you don't like stem from that experience being shared by thousands and...

Those are exactly the opposite of one another, though. This is unfortunately where medical training makes you lose the necessary perspective, compared to how we have lived experience of those things. Well, except the CCI thing, that one is not like the others.

I am not joking that we would be better served by philosophy graduates. Absolutely not kidding, not even a little bit.

Hey, if I'm proper drunk and I tell you that's 3 fingers, and you're proper drunk too and tell me the nice-but-a-bit-blurry officer is holding 4 fingers, clearly we are both correct and either there are 3.5 fingers, or we discovered quantum digital theory. Either way it's back to the pub for...

After 6 years, this is an absurd level of failure. It's not that we don't know enough, it's that what's known is dismissed because it doesn't fit the narrative. Said knowledge remains limited. This all feels like the aftermath of a giant natural disaster, where the response consists of two...

I'm not sure this is a big factor. Programmers are not scientists either, most of us are more technician than computer scientists, but I've never seen the depth of intellectual bankruptcy I see out of medicine, and it's not even close. The only path for programmers who that bad at their job is...

Philip Morris re-branded as Altria following the tobacco-cancer trials, then back again to Philip Morris International. Always the same company. Half of papers try to pretend otherwise, sometimes they will tell the truth and admit they are synonyms. This is like trying to find the perfect slur...

This is just embarrassing. I cannot wrap my head around the idea of insisting so strongly on being wrong while inflicting so much harm and misery. They are explicitly demanding false information, lies and bullshit, really, even as a middle ground has already diluted things in their favor to the...

Oh, that would be a terrible idea. Never cross the beams, this would give science a bad name and it does not need to be associated with things that are clearly not. If anything applies to this here, science is the process by which things described in this manual are taken out of it, which is the...

Simply asking a simple rating of 1-10 is just as good as any of those in most cases, and likely never falls below 90% of accuracy. Not because it's a good or accurate way, but because those questionnaires have too much fluff and confusion embedded in them that whatever usefulness they add, they...

House of Commons petition for "long COVID, post-vaccine injuries, and related conditions": https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7076. Not much meat or weight to it, but there is absolutely nothing being done for this in Canada. Health care is a provincial...

That's an odd perspective. It seems to be common in medicine, and explains so much, especially the lack of incremental progress. In most engineering fields, this is the stuff that drives us. We want to figure things out, especially odd puzzles like this. Sometimes just knowing, seeing where it...

Same pattern everywhere. Venture capital firms typically fund hundreds of startups, most fail, the few that make it are profitable enough that all the losses are worth it. Same with pharmaceutical trials. Research is mostly a brute force thing, outside of a few exceptions. Problem is that fact...