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A significant portion of foundational psychology research doesn't replicate. The studies your diagnosis rests on; the trials that approved your medication. What the replication crisis actually means for clinical practice and why it hasn't changed anything yet.
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The Wakefield fraud, the Tylenol preprint, the WiFi studies. The toxin framework that lets you plug any environmental villain into the autism slot. The actual epidemiology. The dark irony of the anti-vax movement.
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Diagnosis rates by zip code, by school district, by whether your state has high-stakes testing. The stimulant prescription map follows socioeconomic and educational pressure patterns, not neurological ones.
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The serotonin hypothesis was never proven. It was a plausible mechanism attached to a drug that worked better than placebo in some trials. The chemical imbalance explanation was marketing copy that became folk science.
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No biomarkers. No blood tests. Five of nine symptoms for two weeks. The insurance reimbursement architecture that made the checklist system immortal. Follow the money from symptom cluster to prescription pad to quarterly earnings.
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1973. American Psychiatric Association membership vote. A disease category gone by ballot. What this reveals about what the DSM actually is. Not a scientific document. A consensus document.
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Myers-Briggs is Jungian astrology with corporate HR approval. The MBTI has roughly the same test-retest reliability as a horoscope and is used in Fortune 500 hiring. Nobody talks about this.
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The cocaine years; the unfalsifiable framework; the mythology machine. What Freud got directionally right that got lost when the DSM replaced his stories with checklists.
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Kraepelin. Late 1800s. Decides to classify mental illness like a botanist classifies plants. Purely by observable symptom clusters; no underlying mechanism required.
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The compounds in willow bark. Foxglove. Turmeric. Thousands of years of empirical observation without a control group.
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Astrology; Ayurvedic doshas; Chinese five elements; Mesoamerican calendars; Norse birth runes. All different mechanisms; all mapping the same human need. The universality is the data point.
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Every ancient culture independently built birth-season wisdom. The mechanism was wrong. The observation wasn't. Season-of-birth effects on personality and cognition replicated across dozens of studies.