You're probably getting downvoted because you're making a casual armchair judgement and this is Scott fucking Alexander we're talking about. //edit: I only jus

You're probably getting downvoted because you're making a casual armchair judgement and this is Scott fucking Alexander we're talking about. //edit: I only just got to this section of the article, but it feels good to include as a counter-example. > During that year, Dr. W and I worked together on two less ambitious studies, carefully designed not to require any contact with the IRB. One was a case report, the other used publicly available data. > They won 1st and 2nd prize at a regional research competition. I got some nice certificates for my wall and a little prize money. I went on to present one of them at the national meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, a friend helped me write it up formally, and it was recently accepted for publication by a medium-tier journal. > I say this not to boast, but to protest that I’m not as much of a loser as my story probably makes me sound. I’m capable of doing research, I think I have something to contribute to Science. I still think the bipolar screening test sucks, and I still think that patients are being harmed by people’s reliance on it. I still think somebody should look into it and publish the results.