It's not a conspiracy that the definition was changed in the newest DSM and it's similarly public and easy to lookup that a motivating force behind the change w

It's not a conspiracy that the definition was changed in the newest DSM and it's similarly public and easy to lookup that a motivating force behind the change was presentations from advocacy groups. I happen to agree with the perspective those groups advocated but that should be an irrelevent detail. My point was simply that what's a "mob" and what's an advocacy group seems arbitrary and so it's important to have some sort of explanation for why it's okay when certain political groups try to influence the academic dialogue and not when others do it. Otherwise, involved sciences just become another political battleground. I agree that maybe it was unfair of me to point at the social sciences so quickly but they have this problem much more than the hard sciences by most metrics.