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ben_sisko

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    Comment #45035533

    Sounds like you need to read better books Bromaster General!

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    Comment #45035504

    The exercise and food science people are the worst of social science buddy. Or just “social” something, because it’s not science. “Science-based” always makes me laugh. The DSM onl…

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    Comment #45035475

    “Chemical imbalance” lol. You have inadvertently outed yourself as not having a clue by your reply. It’s nothing personal but you just clearly don’t have a clue and/or don’t have s…

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    Comment #45035443

    The DSM diagnostic categories are glorified billing codes that everybody (who actually has real ground contact with mental health care for real for real) recognizes as primitive, S…

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    Comment #43295971

    Before I got my first pair of progressives lenses I saw a lot of conflicting anecdotal accounts. After doing research, the conclusion I came to was simple: I got the very best prog…

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    Comment #41105694

    Julia is the Desktop Linux of these kinds of programming languages: it’s about to get really big sometime very soon in the future! Then you see a post like this years later. “THIS …

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    Comment #41105677

    This link lays out the case in an exceptionally thorough and damning (for Julia) way.

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    Comment #41029881

    I’m not saying the non-stimulant options do nothing, but on average the non-stimulant options have a lower effect size than the stimulants. There are many well designed studies tha…

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    Comment #41029655

    Stimulant medication for ADHD has the highest effect size in all of psychiatry. ADHD is highly treatable, when people are properly treated. This just feels like something that some…

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    Comment #40997453

    The “Job Openings vs Interest Rates” section is incredibly weak and amateurish. Just a bunch of assertions and conjecture. - Superimposing two graphs is the evidence provided? Real…

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