Netherlands Euthanasia Guru Bemoans His Handiwork

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 22, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

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Boudewijn Chabot is the Netherlander psychiatrist who assisted the suicide of a deeply depressed woman who wished to die after the demise of her two children. Read More ›

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post

Date
May 29, 2013

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __nedited, association fallacy, bandwagon fallacy, discarded theories, double standard, evidence, Karl Giberson, Larry Laudan, mythology, phrenology, psychiatry, rhetorical strategies, scientism, self-correcting, special pleading}

Karl Giberson’s Scientism Refuses to Die, but It Should

_{Science and Culture
May 29, 2013

Evolution, Medicine, Scientific Reasoning

8}

"Science is a self-correcting process," Giberson assures us. Where have we heard that before? Read More ›

Psychotherapy session, woman talking to his psychologist in the studio

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
May 28, 2013

Categories
Psychology
Tagged
, __nedited, Eric Hedin, freedom from religion foundation, mathematics, psychiatry, psychology}

Psychiatry as “Science” Controversy Grows

_{Bruce Chapman
May 28, 2013

Psychology

2}

Slowly it is dawning on people that the borders of "science" are not hard; they bleed into other fields and cannot be construed as fixed. Read More ›

Concept of substance addiction. The struggle and journey of individuals affected by the condition. Ai Generated.

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post

Date
May 8, 2013

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Metascience
Psychology
Tagged
, __nedited, ad hoc hypotheses, both sides, category error, clinical depression, conflict of interest, depression, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, diagnostic inflation, evidence for evolution, fallibility, funding, honesty, perverse incentives, pharmaceutical industry, politicization, psychiatry, Sigmund Freud, Zeitgeist}

How a Scientific Field Can Collapse: The Case of Psychiatry

_{Science and Culture
May 8, 2013

Evolution, Medicine, Metascience, Psychology

11}

Psychiatry is in crisis. Leading journals are questioning its validity as a science. Yet some of the same criticisms could be leveled against Darwinism. Read More ›