Bribing doctors with ice cream
May 25, 2019 4:26 PM   Subscribe

A visit to the meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Slate Star Codex's impressions
posted by Rich Smorgasbord (6 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Sorry, this is picking up a lot of flags and really not landing well. -- Eyebrows McGee



 
This is every convention, for every industry, since the beginning of time.
posted by jordantwodelta at 4:42 PM on May 25, 2019 [4 favorites]


Oh no! Psychiatrists are paying attention to things like gender and religious identity and the effects of people's environments on their mental wellbeing! Definitely "woke" bullshit and not at all things that are deeply connected to mental health!
posted by augustimagination at 4:48 PM on May 25, 2019 [5 favorites]


Points out omnipresent advertising. Points out the games that drug companies play to sell minor tweaks on existing medications for ridiculous amounts of money. Dismisses the idea that capitalism is a problem.

Rationalist®-like typing detected.
posted by clawsoon at 4:50 PM on May 25, 2019 [5 favorites]


Celebrates guy who got homosexuality delisted as a disorder in the 1970s. Dismisses people concerned about marginalized groups today.
posted by clawsoon at 4:55 PM on May 25, 2019 [7 favorites]


Building a mini City at one of these is nothing. At the last American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting that I went to, a pharmacy company built a walk-through model of a colon.

Seriously, these meetings are bizarre.
posted by honeybee413 at 4:56 PM on May 25, 2019 [1 favorite]


Seriously, what is up with the links to Slate Star Codex recently?
posted by Kutsuwamushi at 5:06 PM on May 25, 2019 [8 favorites]


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