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The data is pretty clear that psychology and psychiatry sucks at doing it's job. But it's a hell of a tough job, and using more meaningful words probably doesn't hurt.


Exactly: "Meaningful."

Precisely, it feels like there's a lot of "activity" and "named ideas" chasing things that may not meaningfully exist? This is of course symptomatic of "publish or perish" et al, but I suppose one of the difficulties here is that the paper is like "here are some bad ideas and trends (fair) so here are some more to counteract that."

It really just gives the impression of "wow, these people are wasting time if they can't even decide on what relatively accessible words even mean?"

E.g. The bit on "symptoms" is crazy sounding.




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