"It’s possible Hari addresses my concerns, and many others, in the full book. I’ve not read it yet." Get back to me when you do read the book then. http://bit.ly/2FW2p8a
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Replying to @smsmithwriter
But, like, Hari says a lot of wildly wrong things in the articles he's had published recently. Can't imagine the book is going to address all of that
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Replying to @GidMK
really, like what? I know he was fired for plagiarism.
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Replying to @smsmithwriter
This is from his Huffpost piece. It's all either incorrect or misleading - the improvement in sleep patterns is associated with, not causal of, improvements in depression scores, and the reference to the 1.8 improvement is to a study that doesn't show that at allpic.twitter.com/tzEza0d1hV
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Replying to @GidMK
Ok, I have read a rebuttal of Irving's work as well so I'm taking it all with a grain of salt. Also, I think this is why people writing about medical science need to have a basic education in it ie. statistical data, epidemiology, how RCTs work
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Replying to @smsmithwriter
Oh absolutely. The link goes to a meta-analysis of 4 newer antidepressants, if you didn't have a working knowledge of epi you'd just take what he says at face value
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Replying to @GidMK
I think though, the knowledge divide between the public and health professionals is what Hari is trying to address re: depression workings. We still kinda suck at getting past the clinical language.
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Replying to @smsmithwriter @GidMK
(I consider this an interesting case study on public health communication)
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Hm I think he goes much further than that though, he is proposing an entirely different model of depression diagnosis/treatment that isn't really based on evidence
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