1/ good thread to go off on a tangent (a very wide tangent): there is always a tension between adjusting things to tweak the marginal incentives, and adjusting things in a way that hammers people well out of the mainstream that's cryptic; let me expand >>> https://twitter.com/gaitanalyst/status/1387023943496765441 …
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Replying to @MorlockP
My problem with psychiatric meds is the deliberate deception encouraged by the FDA. They are not "medicine" in the usual sense. They do not "correct a chemical imbalance in the brain." There is NO physical test for schizophrenia, ADHD, or other commonly medicated disorders.
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Replying to @WoodFenton
the idea that "there's no physical test, therefore it's not a real problem" is a nonsense PoV
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Replying to @MorlockP
It's a real problem, but it's not a medical problem. Psychiatrists have been claiming for decades that schizophrenia, ADHD, and other disorders have a physical cause, but they've never produced any evidence.
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Replying to @WoodFenton
> It's a real problem, but it's not a medical problem. so nothing is a medical problem if there's not a chemical test for it ergo cancer EXISTED in the 19th century, but it wasn't a MEDICAL problem
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Replying to @MorlockP
Cancer is a physical abnormality and it was known to the ancient Greeks. Mental disorders are in a different category. They sometimes have a physical cause, but this is not always the case. Assuming a physical cause without evidence is bad science.
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Replying to @WoodFenton
> Assuming a physical cause without evidence is bad science. Right, so cancer - although known to the Greeks - did not show up on any TESTS before 20th century, so it was a real problem, but not a medical problem. Saying cancer was a medical problem before ~ 1900 = bad science.
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you're moving the goal posts in every tweet - you switch between "physical cause" and "physical abnormality", between "chemical imbalances" revealed by tests, and other techniques. This is ... not helpful / interesting.
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