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Re:Mass psychogenic illness and social networks: changing th... by coldtea on Sunday December 22, 2024 @09:08AM (#42486406)
Which is mostly soft-science made up, and changes when the politics/ideology changes...
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Re:Mass psychogenic illness and social networks: changing th... by mystified5016 on Sunday December 22, 2024 @01:15PM (#42488048)
Tell me you don't understand science without saying you don't understand science
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Re:Mass psychogenic illness and social networks: changing th... by coldtea on Sunday December 22, 2024 @02:27PM (#42488452)
You keep using this term "science". I don't think it means what you think it means.

If you think the DSM is science the way Physics and Chemistry are sciences, I have a bridge to sell you...

Perhaps in the 50s you'd be onboard with lobotomy too, because 'yay, science' (and after all "they corrected it, didn't they?").

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