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Head Injury: Dealing with an important mental health concern in youth
Posted on 02/04/2012 | 0 Comments
Just because your wearing a helmet, doesn’t mean your invincible.
What Causes or Prevents Mental Disorder?
Posted on 29/03/2012 | 3 Comments
We need to stop thinking about causality in linear fashion and we need to start doing research that can give us answers to questions in a best evidence way – not jumping to conclusions that reinforce our biases
Informing Canadians about Mental Health: the media has a lot to answer for
Posted on 23/03/2012 | 0 Comments
Over a third of media reports portrayed violence and dangerousness related to mental illness. Only about a sixth dealt with recovery or rehabilitation.
How Can Some People Be So Far Out of Touch?
Posted on 06/03/2012 | 1 Comments
Psychiatric diagnoses have always been difficult to develop and to implement.
The Elephant in the Room: mental disorder or mental health problem
Posted on 22/02/2012 | 2 Comments
Sometimes it is difficult to determine where the boundary between a mental health problem and a mental disorder can be.
The right care when you need it!
Posted on 21/02/2012 | 0 Comments
Let’s call it what it is. Not stigma but discrimination.
Stigma’s Role in Perpetuating the Cycle
Posted on 14/02/2012 | 0 Comments
What Mike was voicing was in some way a stigmatizing perspective about people who struggle with drug misuse and abuse.
Teachers Can Make A Difference—My Experience with Mental Illness
Posted on 14/02/2012 | 0 Comments
If we don’t build it, it can’t work…
Posted on 14/02/2012 | 0 Comments
This also tells us that there is no simple quick fix in suicide prevention. We need to apply many different approaches, and we need to ensure that the approaches that we apply actually work.
Who’s the Professional?
Posted on 14/02/2012 | 1 Comments
Apparently a “reputable” newspaper has engaged Ozzy Osborne to be their health columnist. According to his batness himself, he is well qualified to dispense health advice because: “I’ve seen literally thousands of doctors over my lifetime, and spent well over £1-million on them, to the point where I sometimes think I know more about being a doctor than doctors do.”
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This is a great set of comments and rings very true.
I totally agree that scientists (just like everyone else) have their biases and foibles. After all, scientists are human beings too! But science is different than scientists.
The scientific method is the most objective frame that we have by which to evaluate and predict. Science is not about finding truth. It is only about being less wrong most of the time. The scientific method (experimental design and mathematics) gives us the ability to test what we believe. The scientific method is not used to prove something is correct, on the contrary, the scientific method is designed to prove that something is not correct! It is designed to test what is called the “null hypothesis”. It takes ideas that come out of left field (or wherever else they come from) and puts those ideas to an independent test.
t does not drive our beliefs. It does however challenge our beliefs. In that way it is self-correcting. Of course scientific inquiry and understanding lives within a wider social context. That is one of the great features of science.
But gravity is gravity, social context notwithstanding. And thus it is nasty, brutish and long. As Brecht said, (something like this) - the purpose of science is to save us from everlasting error.
By Christina Carew on May 11th
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