The APA Meeting: A Photo-Essay

Post by dymk » Thu, May 23, 2019, 11:02 PM UTC

ve55 wrote: post #19

dymk wrote: post #8

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Your complaints pop up in basically any thread except for the most bland, or specifically technical, of posts here. Saying it's a bad post because it pinged something particularly offensive in your brain is your own biases talking.

Parent comment specifically states "I'm not saying the post is bad", yet you say "Saying it's a bad post because" in your response. It would be better to read their comment in full to attempt to better understand their angle before responding with a comment like that.

Post by ve55 » Thu, May 23, 2019, 11:10 PM UTC

dymk wrote: post #22

ve55 wrote: post #19

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Parent comment specifically states "I'm not saying the post is bad", yet you say "Saying it's a bad post because" in your response. It would be better to read their comment in full to attempt to better understand their angle before responding with a comment like that.

Let's try not to derail this with pointless semantic mincing; the comment above mine said this was "a bad HN submission". What else is that supposed to mean? What salient difference could they mean between "A bad post" and "A bad HN submission", aside from them simply not having a coherent train of thought?

Post by tptacek » Thu, May 23, 2019, 11:21 PM UTC

thrower123 wrote: post #21

tptacek wrote: post #4

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The mods can turn comments off on posts, but rarely do. I think, if we want to broaden the kinds of stories that can survive without flagging, that should happen more often.

You have some very strong opinions about what kinds of discussion are suitable. Fortunately, those opinions are not universal. Turning off comments kind of defeats the purpose of the site, to my mind. It's no fun when moderately voted links that generate no discussion park on the front page for extended periods of time as already happens.

Post by mistermann » Thu, May 23, 2019, 11:37 PM UTC

everybodyknows wrote: post #11

There's illumination here for those of us who've been prescribed shockingly expensive drugs with generic near-equivalents going for 1/40th the price (as I have): >I asked the Lucemyra® representative why I might prescribe Lucemyra® instead of clonidine for opiate withdrawal. She said it was because Lucemyra® is FDA-approved for this indication, and clonidine isn’t. This is the same old story as Rozerem® vs. melatonin…

Post by tptacek » Fri, May 24, 2019, 3:00 AM UTC

tomp wrote: post #14

tptacek wrote: post #2

This is like the seeds of 3/4 of all the bad HN threads all in one blog post. We can relitigate the concept of psychiatry, debate the implications of big pharma, yell at each other about wokeness versus PC culture, pretend not to understand how trade shows work or, I don't know, find some way to argue about how they should be run... and who knows what else. And virtually none of the comments will be from people who h…

I loved this post (basically a balanced criticism of psychiatry by a psychiatrist), and I think it makes a great HN submission .