Also, as Hain noted, architecture/engineering of buildings isn't really the same. If a doctor or psychiatrist misdiagnose, they are often not negligent. If a company builds a skyscraper and it crashes out of the blue killing people, they are ALWAYS at fault. There aren't really unknown variables these days when constructing a building. You can do ground xray testing and verify the solidity of the ground, take core samples to verify it's material makeup and other such tests. You cannot do an MRI of the brain and look at symptoms and be assured of making a correct diagnosis. They aren't remotely the same.
Understand that I believe psych is a very difficult field. I understand the amount of education and effort that go into it. I'm not belittling a psychiatrist for going through those motions. I just don't believe there's "a science to it". There may be underlying science that supports it, but the whole is not scientific.
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Burden of proof fallacy.
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How so? We are talking science. Science is either crap, theory or fact. Currently you are stating a theory, I am making statements of fact, at least from the engineering side. What statement of fact have you provided to defend your argument?
As an aside, Will, I hope there are no hard feeling here. I live for this type of debate... either both sides eventually agree to disagree or someone learns something. Either way, it's always a worthwhile expedition as long as both sides play nicely.
