Today, 08:32 PM
Meh. Psychiatry is problematic enough as it is, without injecting politics into it - and vice versa.
Whether or to what extent psychiatry is actually just a bunch of hoodoo gussied up as "science" is an issue about which volumes could be written.
Science requires rigorous definitions and objectively reproducible measurements. These are things in which the field of psychiatry is severely deficient.
But for the sake of what follows, let us assume that psychiatry is not just another instance of overweening scientism.
Did the study account for how likely members of the various groups (liberal, conservative, male, female, young, old, etc.) were to seek psychiatric diagnoses in the first place?
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