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Nautilus has an interesting rundown on how scientific fraud happens and what could possibly be done to correct it written in comic book form. It's a fun little read and oh so true.
The book that it is based on, Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth, is worth reading as well.
Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King's College London. His new book, Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth, explains the ideas in this comic, by Zach Weinersmith, in more detail, telling shocking stories of scientific error and misconduct. It also proposes an abundance of ideas for how to rescue science from its current malaise.
How many Soylentils here are in academia? Have you felt the pressure of "publish or perish"?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Opportunist on Saturday August 01 2020, @09:39AM (5 children)
It is more likely that the drugs are not the reason but the catalyst. What you have here is a drug that is supposed to help someone get out of the depression slump. How does it does that? By improving the mood and drive.
Now let's ponder what a suicidal murderer might be doing if he had some more drive.
The alternative is to have a suicidal murderer that is just not properly motivated to actually grab a gun and kill people. Sure, it is better than the alternative of a motivated suicidal murderer, but I guess the more worthwhile goal would be to figure out what made him angry enough at society that he wants to kill his fellow people. Because there's one thing that's curious about most of these murder sprees, especially the shootings happening at schools: They happen at schools. Not malls on a Black Friday or before Christmas when you could get a way higher tally.
This ain't murder sprees. These people don't just kill anyone, they pick their targets very specifically.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @02:09PM
2) The kids are pretty much forced to attend those schools.
3) In the USA kids can easily get guns.
4) There's plenty of media coverage of such incidents, so the kids don't have to think of such options by themselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @04:57PM (3 children)
Well... Maybe you should read more about how antidepressants actually work. Hint: not like you think. The publicly stated withdrawal symptoms adequately explain the incidents that occur. Many commit suicide, some commit murder, most make it through relatively intact.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @05:43PM
So much this, and if the mental health industry had the mandate and funding to provide the necessary supervision and follow-up, even just weekly scheduled contact with mandatory intervention when problems are detected, the problem could largely be eliminated. But that doesn't give political hacks their talking points, so it will never be done.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2020, @04:35AM
And yet psilocybin is Schedule 1 and banned even for consideration as a therapeutic.
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Monday August 03 2020, @01:13PM
Trust me. I know how they work. I have a wide spectrum first hand experience of their effects, side effects, withdrawal effects, perceived effects, adverse effects and paradoxical effects.