May
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The Younger Dryas
Steven Novella, Neurologica
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I love raging scientific controversies. I am not talking about vaccines and autism, global warming, evolution, or homeopathy – these are not actual scientific controversies. They are political controversies intruding onto science. I prefer nerdy scientific debates that have insignificant political implications. I like to see two groups of scientists arguing about the evidence over [...]
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May
21
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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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