Indeed I continue being not well, for which reason I still have not yet
written more
on the DSM-5TM I also
wanted to write a bit more
about psychiatry and about
Cargo Cult Science and
pseudoscience, but these things also
have to be queued awaiting somewhat better times.
I intend to write more about
Warren Sturgis McCulloch whose fine, courageous, honest, very
knowledgeable assessment of psychiatry in
"The Past of a Delusion" (pdf, 2.8 MB) I wrote about
the last time, which is a MUST READ for
everyone with ME (with any rational scientific interest), but not today,
in which I have just two simple points.
1. Update ME-Resources
2. Creation of Center of Excellence for CFS
considered at NIH
1. Update ME-Resources
First, I have an
update
ME-Resources from
which I repeat Lucian's dialogue, since I like it and it applies
to ME + me (more than not):
PHILOSOPHY
(Godess of): But what's your
job? There's no harm in asking that.
LUCIAN: I'm an anti-cheatist, an anti-quackist, an anti-liarist,
and an anti-inflated-egoist. I'm anti all the revolting types
like that - and there are plenty of them, as you know.
PHILOSOPHY [smiling]: Well, well! You're quite an
anti-body, aren't you?
LUCIAN: I certainly am. You can see why I've got myself aso much
disliked, and why I'm in such a dangerous situation. Not that I'm
not an expert pro-body too. I'm a pro-truthist, a pro-beautician,
a pro-sinceritist, and a pro-everything that's pro-worthy. But I
don't find much scope for exercisting my talents in that
direction, whereas thousands of people are always queuing up for
the anti-treatment. In fact I'm so out of practice as a probody,
that I dare say I have lost the knack of it by now - but I'm a
real expert at the other part of my profession.
PHILOSOPHY [seriously]: That's bad. They're opposite sides
of a coin, as it were. So don't specialize in one at the expense
of the other. They should merely be different aspects of the same
fundamental attitude.
LUCIAN: Well, you know best, Philosophy. But I'm so constituted
that I can't help hating bad types and liking good ones.
(From: Fishing for phonies, Turner translation, Penguin
Classics, p. 177-8)
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The version of
ME-Resources
is mostly that of
The past year of ME + me - some that I learned
with the addition of this
For a true and still valid description of
psychiatry by the former professor of psychiatry, later professor of
neurophysiology and one of the founding fathers of cybernetics and
neural networks see
McCulloch vs. Wessely and
for a true and still valid description see the
fundamental description of what pseudoscience is by the
worldfamous physicist Richard Feynman see:
Feynman vs Wessely.
Version: 1.0 - October 12,
2010.
2. Creation of Center of Excellence for CFS
considered at NIH
Second, also in the context of my repeated
call by the physicist
John
Archibald Wheeler's, seeing this is
VERY much
needed in the psychiatric, psychotherapeutic and psychological
pseudo-sciences (and elsewhere too):
Drive The Pseudos Out
Of The Workshop Of Science!
and
with my sincere
hope this may be starting to happen in the US,
here is a brief bit from
a larger report Cort Johnson wrote on Phoenix-Rising with the part
that interests me made red by me
Asst Secretary of Health Koh - Be sure to be up for the start because
Dr. Koh our liaison to Dr. Collins (the head of the NIH). will speak. He’s not
going to speak much but length, as they say, is overrated. Known as someone who
‘produces’, Dr. Koh was Assistant Secretary of Health for a year before he
showed up at a CFSAC meeting but when he did - last session
http://www.hhs.gov/advcomcfs/meeting...00510min.html- he promised results.
After noting that that he had ‘lost count’ of the number of times Dr. Wanda
Jones had briefed him on issues of importance to CFS he
stated that he and Dr. Jones had a ‘direct discussion’ with Dr. Collins about
the creating a Center of Excellence for CFS, something that, in his opinion, is
‘so, so reasonable’. It’ll be interesting to hear if Dr. Koh has
something concrete to announce.
This seems quite good new, "unthinkable" - as the
somewhat paradoxical term is - until very recently:
ME + me : Good
ME-news: Dr. Alter et.al. paper + Dr. Mikovits video - namely that the
head of the NIH is discussing the
Creation of Center of Excellence for CFS.
I do very much hope this comes to rational
fruition, for patients with ME and in the interest of real medical
science, notably what is called multi-systemic diseases and to
drive the pseudos out of science.
P.S. There's more I could have written about, and
more about
McCulloch I would have written today with a bit
more health, but such is life, with ME. There are also some more updates
of the site, but this is for later and in Dutch.
P.P.S. It may be I have to stop Nederlog for a while. The reason
is that I am physically not well at all. I don't know yet, but if
there is no Nederlog, now you know the reason.
