Posted by Larry Hoover on May 26, 2006, at 7:58:57
In reply to Re: Link, here's why I'm so focussed on the science, posted by linkadge on May 25, 2006, at 17:50:24
> I was under the impression that I was allowed to offer my coments, even if they didn't strictly fall in the category of the subject title.
Of course. I wanted you to understand that my impersonal approach was not about you. I was taking the question literally.
I find that the exercise of that sort of argument, stripping bare all opinion, can be amazingly revealing. How little we know. About anything. And how much of what we believe is opinion. The more I know, the less I know. Ya know?
So far, in all of science, there is only one study that even tries to answer your question (as I understand your question to be), the one I linked to. All the rest is opinion (anything arising from anecdote is opinion).
Real people, using antidepressant drugs, self-selected their need for care. And the results for that population were graphed. Significance testing was done.
I only know of that one study. All else is opinion. Healy was a champion, for a while. Not so much, anymore. His opinion is more informed, now. That's how I see it.
I truly regret bringing you discomfort, in this dialogue.
Lar
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