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Old Sep 08, 2013, 07:56 AM
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This article is the kind that triggers me. "If you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail." If you are a neuroscientist, everything is explained by the mechanics of brain function. I do not find this a productive way at looking at mental illness. It is part of the story, not the whole story. It almost entirely overlooks what happens to people in early life, and how that affects the brain. And by concentrating on brain mechanics it crowds out paying attention to how people and society affect how people turn out. Grrrrrrrrrr!

And by "empirical" they really mean concentrating on things that certain people like (i.e. mechanics), and ignoring things that those people find too uncomfortable to deal with. Does "empirical" mean denying some of the evidence?
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