alex3619
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Psychobabble is psychiatry that is not adequately founded in evidence or reason, and frequently has circular and defensive secondary hypotheses making it intractable to scientific inquiry. Its more about rhetoric than reason, and more about claims than evidence.
I don't want to say much right now, not the least because my internet is unstable, but in another thread I raised the question that tolerance to psychobabble might be the biggest issue in medicine.
Most of psychogenic medicine, as well as much of the biopsychosocial (BPS) school of thought, is probably psychobabble.
Doctors and scientists, as well as government agencies and ministers, routinely ignore these issues. Yet there are scientists, psychiatrists and academics who do speak out against it. I am also aware of both scientists and doctors who privately are against psychobabble, yet publicly I don't hear a squeak.
I have a lot of my own ideas about what is wrong. This thread however is to canvas as wide a variety of issues as possible. Please post your ideas, especially if you can think of a way to begin to fix this.
We need mainstream doctors, scientists and bureaucrats to take a stand. We need evidence favoured over claims, and reason favoured over rhetoric. Mostly however we need to break the culture of acceptance by silence. This whole issue is mired in dogma, it discredits the entire medical profession, and its evidence that we never left the Age of Mythology.
What can advocacy do? What should be our goals? How do we raise awareness of these issues? How do we support the scientists, doctors and especially psychiatrists to speak out?
This is based both on the history of my investigations, plus this thread: http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...arch-collaborative-uk-cmrc-tymes-trust.32302/
I don't want to say much right now, not the least because my internet is unstable, but in another thread I raised the question that tolerance to psychobabble might be the biggest issue in medicine.
Most of psychogenic medicine, as well as much of the biopsychosocial (BPS) school of thought, is probably psychobabble.
Doctors and scientists, as well as government agencies and ministers, routinely ignore these issues. Yet there are scientists, psychiatrists and academics who do speak out against it. I am also aware of both scientists and doctors who privately are against psychobabble, yet publicly I don't hear a squeak.
I have a lot of my own ideas about what is wrong. This thread however is to canvas as wide a variety of issues as possible. Please post your ideas, especially if you can think of a way to begin to fix this.
We need mainstream doctors, scientists and bureaucrats to take a stand. We need evidence favoured over claims, and reason favoured over rhetoric. Mostly however we need to break the culture of acceptance by silence. This whole issue is mired in dogma, it discredits the entire medical profession, and its evidence that we never left the Age of Mythology.
What can advocacy do? What should be our goals? How do we raise awareness of these issues? How do we support the scientists, doctors and especially psychiatrists to speak out?
This is based both on the history of my investigations, plus this thread: http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...arch-collaborative-uk-cmrc-tymes-trust.32302/
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