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dr_scientist OP , 5 months ago

Good tip, thanks!

dr_scientist OP , 5 months ago

I agree, the source is poor. But I thought the summary was better than the one offered here:

www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/star-d-dethroned

Bruce E. Levine is just some guy. Not great. But the sources he cites made the case for me:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37491091/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25886544/

I myself am and have been on psychotropics for years, don’t know what I would do without them. Further, as noted, the the STAR*D approach drops from 67% to 35%, which means they do work for some. But reporting that high a rate when the numbers don’t support it is information patients need. The original study seems very problematic with patients that dropped out assigned success rates, and the lack of a control group. I think the information is relevant.

dr_scientist OP , 5 months ago

The other sources are

www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/star-d-dethroned

Which cites the BMJ

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25886544/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37491091/

I thought this article explained the science better than the Psychiatric Times, so I used it. Lesson learned.

dr_scientist OP , 6 months ago

Yeah, I really got to start looking at photos before I post them. The picture does make it look a bit … poop adjacent.

dr_scientist , 7 months ago

I was thinking about this watching the doc “Midnight Oil: 1984”. A year and a band (I think) that transcended the angry genre, music was catchy and very popular. So maybe the times will come around again. I feel sick of the media ignoring even the most basic issues (like, dunno, survival and stuff), and I think and hope others will connect with art that expresses some level of discontent. Which is a form of sanity these days.

dr_scientist OP , 7 months ago

So sorry, I didn’t see if the article worked. I’m an idiot.

dr_scientist OP , 7 months ago

Thank you.

dr_scientist , 7 months ago

Archived version: archive.is/0eou1

dr_scientist , 9 months ago

If you liked that, you’re going to love this. It’s almost exactly the price tag to switch - completely - to renewables.

e360.yale.edu/…/the-global-price-tag-for-100-perc…

I know, I know, many studies, many different amounts, but come on! Let’s try!

dr_scientist , 10 months ago

Upvoted for correct use of word ‘grok’, but definitely want to learn more about agent-based modelling. If for no other reason than truth inoculation is one of the more vital battles of our time.

dr_scientist , 10 months ago

Wow, thanks!

dr_scientist , 10 months ago

The article talks about how "the men of the family stayed in their places of birth for life, while the women left the family to live with other groups. "

I thought this was interesting because I recently heard a radio 4 broadcast about how the ban on cousin marriage by the Catholic Church led to the Western world of technology, advancement and individualism. It seemed bogus since I knew about some tribes in the Americas that practiced exactly this kind of pairing outside the tribe, and this study confirms that. So it wasn’t just bogus because it mistook correlation for causation, it was bogus on the evidence as well!

Link to podcast of programme: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sh8z

Wiki on book, The WEIRDest People in the World: en.wikipedia.org/…/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_Wor…

dr_scientist , 10 months ago

I wrote a great reply that was brilliant and generous and had all the clever bits, and then Lemmy deleted it.
You’re right, clan-based practices have had and continue to have struggles both with modernisation and basic human rights. They are not idealised Rousseauean societies. But the author is basically saying that this shift in marriage practices is the sole contributor to Western science. It’s a stretch to be sure, and it doesn’t even have the evidence right.
Here’s a critique with quotes from people way smarter than me.

theguardian.com/…/the-weirdest-people-in-the-worl…

dr_scientist , 10 months ago

Haven’t read that, sounds like an interesting take. Thanks for that. I love anything about how ‘order’ was established, since it seems like a given today, but it definitely isn’t.

dr_scientist , 11 months ago

“Inactivist”, that’s a term that really captures the spirit of this kind of non-denial denial.

dr_scientist , 11 months ago

I was watching the Monty Python documentary and they mentioned this. I think one of the Terry’s bought the episodes, which were scheduled to be erased. Otherwise, no Monty Python for America. What was remarkable was many shows that the Pythons had written for, and the ones that had influenced them, At Last the 1948 Show or the Goon Show were gone. So in an alternate timeline, we might be huge Spike Milligan fans.