Andrés Ruiz
Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read

I was just going off what you said about him. If his methods are freely accessible but he merely keeps his brain images then that’s completely fine. I assumed this was a case of his not even sharing the methodology.

Thanks for the responses. There’s not much we disagree on. I’m completely open to DSM disorders eventually being diagnosable on the basis of biomarkers and brain scans. My arguments in this piece is not that we’ll never find the pathologies for DSM disorders, but that we simply haven’t found any of them yet, and because of this to call them illnesses is done so on the basis of a biologically reductionist ideology, not on the basis of established science.

Because we’re not quite at the point where we can call them illnesses, to simply assume, from the outset, that we’ll find biomarkers and the pathologies behind all of them is to potentially close off other avenues of inquiry and research which, from a harm reduction standpoint, could cause much harm to those who suffer not because of a biological disease but because of life conditions which if identified could be treated by means other than medicine, without the well known harmful side effects of such substances.

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