Re:New Mexico: Psychologists to dress up as wizards when pro...
by brookst on Friday April 19, 2024 @07:37AM
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Isn’t this an “oncologists cause cancer” or “gerontologists cause aging” or “umbrellas cause rain” view?
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Re:New Mexico: Psychologists to dress up as wizards when pro...
by jtc331 on Friday April 19, 2024 @07:44AM
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No, because those things don’t dramatically increase the incidence rate.
Re:New Mexico: Psychologists to dress up as wizards when pro...
by brookst on Friday April 19, 2024 @08:31AM
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We have far more oncologists now than we did 100 years ago, and far more cancer diagnoses.
If the correlation between increased attention on mental health and increased mental health diagnoses is sufficient to show causality, why not with oncologists?
Re:New Mexico: Psychologists to dress up as wizards when pro...
by yencabulator on Friday April 19, 2024 @02:19PM
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People didn't start dying once they started getting diagnosed with a cancer, they were dying just the same undiagnosed. That sort of logic doesn't work as well on something as fuzzy as mental health or "are you happy?".