academic research

I have for a long time been wondering about academic criticism about the term "functional" from withing medicine itself. The psychosomatic proponents try to launch this distinction between "functional" and "structural" aspects of the body. This seems to clearly be just a way to obscure the fact...

I don't think we have an open discussion specifically on the problems of bias in academic research. I initially titled this "Bias in science", but really the problem is with academic research, too much of which makes no attempt at being scientific. And I don't mean interpretive dancing academia...