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“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“Every saint has a past, every sinner a future.”

Oscar Wilde

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They fail to alter their views to fit the facts. Instead, they alter facts to fit their views.

Dr Who.

OSHU Study: Scientific Literature Overstates Psychotherapy’s Effectiveness

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Science Daily:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/vu-slo092415.php

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151001094607.htm

“This doesn’t mean that psychotherapy doesn’t work. Psychotherapy does work. It just doesn’t work as well as you would think from reading the scientific literature,” said Steven Hollon, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology, who co-authored the study with colleagues from Oregon Health & Science University, VU University Amsterdam and the University of Groningen.

This same publication bias has been previously demonstrated with respect to the study of Antidepressant efficacy.

“This study shows that publication bias occurs in Psychotherapy, mirroring what we’ve seen previously with antidepressants and other drugs,” said co-author Erick Turner, associate professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at OHSU School of Medicine, who directed the 2008 study of antidepressants.