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Originally Posted by willravel
You're not talking about something that is in debate. This is not a 50/50 decision. 99.999% of psychologist and psychiatrists agree, and the other .001% work for the Bush administration. There has been a consensus. If all the Mathmaticians all came together and said "1 + 1 = 2", that's pretty much what we're talking about. Anyone who's actually been tortured or has tortured can tell you the same thing. It's completly unreliable, and it's done to instill fear not to extract information. My uncle happened to be a POW. He can explain it a lot better than I can. To suggest that a dentist knows more about torture than a POW is right up there with most of the other things you say. Kinda nuts, and really conceited. You can easily dismiss one of the more basic aspects of understanding the human mind, not unlike Tom Cruise telling Matt Lower that people that psychology is a pseudoscience, and that taking vitamins can easily clear up postpartum depression, but for the rest of us hundreds of years of research and development in creating psychology as a science trumps your personal experience.
How do you feel about Brooke Shields?
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I didn't watch the interview, but my understanding was that he was railing primarily against
psychiatry, which would make sense given the context. Searching around gives me various results, some attributing his statement to psychology and others psychiatry. It's not surprising that laypeople would confuse the two, but there are lots of people that benefit from mental health professionals without the MD doping their kids up on ritalin.