Physicists Have Annual Committee Meeting to Decide Which Law of Physics to Change

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This post is actually about psychiatry changing the DSM. Do you know that their magic book of greek myths and arbitrary distinctions now has the word science added to it? That's right, the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual is becoming the Diagnostic and Science Manual.

It's sort of like a school changing it's name from "City College" to "Smart College for Smart People." If it were true, would it really needed to be changed and added in to prove it?

New this year: the DSM is adding something called Hera Syndrome for women who have online female hysteria and need Xanax. So trendy and scientific! Better open your wallets or you'll miss out on all the cool new labels and treatments!

 

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I'm not even anti-psychology or anti-psychiatry... but experts in the fields do tend to often think they know way more than they know. It wasn't that long ago when lobotomies were considered a proper thing to just do to people... and things are in the DSM until they aren't... things are recognized until they aren't OR aren't recognized until they are. Then they kind of want people to forget that five minutes ago they were saying something completely different than what they are saying now.

This happens in other areas, in science, where we are wrong about a thing for a while until we figure it out... but I think proper science at least tends to indicate that we were wrong about an assumption and then eventually proved it wrong and discarded it and admit as such. Psychology/Psychiatry tends to almost be closer to religion wherein they will continue to assert a thing long after it no longer makes sense to do so, then will change their assertion one day and try to act as if they were always promoting that believe and want to wipe away the past as if it was never real and try to convince you that you might be crazy if you don't just agree with them.