May
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The Genetics of Mental Illness
Steven Novella, Neurologica
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The new Diagnostics and Statistical Manual, DSM-V, is out. Not surprisingly, it has sparked some controversy. Psychiatry deniers are proclaiming that this is the collapse of the mental-illness fraud (I believe reports of the death of psychiatry are exaggerated). What the DSM-V does represent, to some degree, is an attempt to advance psychiatry to the [...]
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May
20
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Consensus on Climate Change
Steven Novella, Neurologica
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A recent review finds that over 97% of scientists believe that human activity is contributing to climate change. That is a very solid consensus of scientific opinion. This, of course, does not mean that the consensus must be correct, but (along with other data) it makes it unreasonable to claim that there is no consensus, [...]
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