I think this is a very good point. I generally agree with the point that much of psychiatry is less well justified than the rest of medicine. That's one reason I am so skeptical of surgical treatments for mental/emotional complaints such as gender dysphoria.
However, if you're trying to win over the psychiatric establishment and turn them away from particularly bad behavior, it makes sense to be strategic, and make a distinction between better and worse methods of diagnosis and treatment, and better and worse research. I think that's what Jesse is trying to do.
I think this is a very good point. I generally agree with the point that much of psychiatry is less well justified than the rest of medicine. That's one reason I am so skeptical of surgical treatments for mental/emotional complaints such as gender dysphoria.
However, if you're trying to win over the psychiatric establishment and turn them away from particularly bad behavior, it makes sense to be strategic, and make a distinction between better and worse methods of diagnosis and treatment, and better and worse research. I think that's what Jesse is trying to do.