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All this is not relevant to the fact that there is no evidence for depression being caused by a chemical imbalance.
by gress 12y ago
All this is not relevant to the fact that there is no evidence for depression being caused by a chemical imbalance.
- zaroth 12y agoNever mind a chemical balance being caused by depression!
- roguecoder 12y agoThat we can fix it by changing the chemical balance is certainly evidence in support of it being caused by a chemical balance.
- tedks 12y agoYes, the point of my post was not to argue for the serotonin hypothesis of depression. If you think that, might I suggest that you missed my point, and you should perhaps reread with an eye towards absorbing novel information and viewpoints rather than trying to classify literally everything as either on a FOR or AGAINST side in a binary argument?
- gress 12y agoYou were arguing that the absence of a blood test doesn't necessarily undermine chemical imbalance theories because of the complexity of the systems involved.
- tedks 12y ago...this is still not my point. I was not addressing chemical imbalance theories at all. Rather, I was trying to argue that the absence of a blood test doesn't make depression ascientific.
- gress 12y agoNobody is saying that depression is ascientific. The context of the thread was that chemical imbalance theories are ascientific.