Re:Researchers Doubt That Certain Mental Disorders Are Disor...
by ncmncm on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:19PM
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Article repeats the thoroughly debunked "evidence has continued to show that antidepressants perform no better than placebo."
"Evidence" cited is based on gathering a crowd of people suffering from at least a half-dozen medically-indistinguishable disorders, and giving them all just one medication that helps only the small fraction of them who suffer only what it treats, and then announcing that medication doesn't work.
It is like rounding up people with broken limbs of all kinds--many with more than one break--and putting a cast on each one's left shinbone; then announcing casts don't work, because look at all the ones it didn't help.
The "Gold Standard" double-blind trial works only if you can diagnose accurately. But the only tool known to diagnose depression is to try and see which medication helps. Design a plausible "gold standard" trial for that, I dare you.
The people conducting these depression treatment trials are guilty of malpractice and gross incompetence, and people repeating their results are, at best, dupes.
"Evidence" cited is based on gathering a crowd of people suffering from at least a half-dozen medically-indistinguishable disorders, and giving them all just one medication that helps only the small fraction of them who suffer only what it treats, and then announcing that medication doesn't work.
It is like rounding up people with broken limbs of all kinds--many with more than one break--and putting a cast on each one's left shinbone; then announcing casts don't work, because look at all the ones it didn't help.
The "Gold Standard" double-blind trial works only if you can diagnose accurately. But the only tool known to diagnose depression is to try and see which medication helps. Design a plausible "gold standard" trial for that, I dare you.
The people conducting these depression treatment trials are guilty of malpractice and gross incompetence, and people repeating their results are, at best, dupes.