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https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/15/contra-contra-contra-caplan-on-psych/

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In 2006, Bryan Caplan wrote\\xa0a critique of psychiatry. In 2015,\\xa0I responded. Now it\\u2019s 2020, and Bryan has\\xa0a counterargument. I\\u2019m going to break the cycle of delay and respond now, and maybe we\\u2019ll finish this argument before we\\u2019re both too old and demented to operate computers.

Bryan writes:

1. With a few exceptions, Scott fairly and accurately explains my original (and current) position.

2. Scott correctly identifies several gray areas in my position, but by my count I explicitly acknowledged all of them in my original article.

3. Scott then uses those gray areas to reject my whole position in favor of the conventional view.

4. The range of the gray areas isn\\u2019t actually that big, so he should have accepted most of my heterodoxies.

5. If the gray areas were as big as Scott says, he should reject the conventional view too and just be agnostic.

I think the gray areas are overwhelming and provide proof that Bryan\\u2019s strict dichotomies don\\u2019t match the real world.