Seriously, who needs to spend money on research or evaluate anything, just listen to what hannity, breitbart, and all those basement righ-wingers tell you. Reminds me of the Wizard of Oz...
"Just as mainstream medicine has been embracing an evidence-based approach (
testing assumptions that, say, arthroscopic surgery for knee osteoarthritis works) so that patients do not receive useless care, so has behavioral health, which includes mental health as well as things such as parent-child relationships and social functioning. Behavioral health has lagged behind, however, because some of the problems it addresses are partly subjective, making it “easy to convince yourself that something is effective when it’s not,” said Throckmorton. That’s harder to demonstrate for interventions meant to help with parent-child interactions than, say, to treat cancer.
Throckmorton said his interest in the field grew from his realization that “change therapy” — to alter people’s sexual orientation — has no scientific basis."
Who needs proof that something works or if it is just snake oil? Well, yeah, perhaps the people who want to electric shock gays to turn them straight, or families dealing with behavioral issues, or even the opiod crisis. Shall we just fumble along in the dark? Yes. Yes, indeed, we shall.
"Making it harder for people struggling with addiction and their families to see whether a treatment they’re being offered has been
shown to work is especially worrisome, said the physician. “In the midst of an opioid epidemic, they’re suspending work on a registry that tells you this,” he said."
And, this is only one aspect of trump and his base's refusal to admit there is such a thing as "evidence". Maybe they can use that when the Mueller investigation ends, too, right?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-adm...205758273.html
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