{"id":24494,"date":"2012-06-15T10:01:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T14:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=24494"},"modified":"2012-06-15T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T15:54:41","slug":"naked-emperors-or-heros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/15\/naked-emperors-or-heros\/","title":{"rendered":"naked emperors or heros…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is there any possible benign reason that the APA DSM-5 Task Force failed to release the results of their Field Trials prior to the end of the final period for comments? I can’t think of one off-hand. I expect that they were as disappointed with the results as the rest of us have been [what results we know about]. If I were in their shoes, I don’t know what I would’ve done. Maybe, I would have scrapped the whole enterprise, or resigned and quietly slid into the waves.<\/p>\n

Back when they started, it was the heyday of pharmacotherapy and almost the age of clinical neuroscience. The DSM-III Revision was still seen as the conquest of good over evil, the rise of evidence-based medicine. Antidepressants were specific for depression. Antipsychotics were specific for psychosis. The newer the drug, the better. Out-of-control kids were bipolar. The genome was within our grasp and eager to release its secrets. Thanks to Dr. Seiji Ogawa<\/a>‘s BOLD fMRI, we could now see the brain think<\/em> and feel<\/em>. Rather than revise the old DSM-IV<\/font><\/strong>, they were going to create the New DSM-5<\/font><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And then things turned on them. TMAP was a fraud. The bosses of bosses and his courtiers were crooked. PHARMA’s ghosts haunted the literature. The courts weren’t kind. The NIMH mega-trials didn’t pan out. Naked Emperors wandered the streets. Patients were howling. And they found they’d been tricked by their dreams and colleagues when the new waves of discovery failed to materialize. Their own predecessors even turned on them. It just wasn’t their time, but they either realized it too late, or still don’t know it.<\/p>\n

And now they’re saying and doing very silly and reckless things, trying to convince people who know otherwise that things are just fine. Not publishing the results of the Field Trials is one of the silly things. Not admitting to the rotten state they’re in and rethinking the whole show is a reckless one. Putting on the brakes right now would be heroic, but it looks as if this is not the age of heros. It’s an era of naked Emperors…<\/p>\n

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Is there any possible benign reason that the APA DSM-5 Task Force failed to release the results of their Field Trials prior to the end of the final period for comments? I can’t think of one off-hand. I expect that they were as disappointed with the results as the rest of us have been [what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24494"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24509,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24494\/revisions\/24509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}