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You shouldn't seek to prove your hypotheses right. *If you're a scientist, you should only seek to prove them wrong.* This is widely accepted & has been naturalized long enough to be normative. So WHAT are we doing to pain patients?
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It appears a twisted form of methodological skepticism is being forced on us. #Patients are routinely told by psychologists, who don't treat physical diseases or injuries, that the psychologists' & drs' Cartesian doubt about a patients' subjective knowledge of their OWN ...
physical experience, is a MEDICAL TREATMENT. What do I mean?
Translation: Patients must simply accept that pain is inherently in one's own mind because perceptions of one's own sensory in/output are interpreted by the brain via electrical impulses. "I think therefore I am."
Translation: Patients must simply accept that pain is inherently in one's own mind because perceptions of one's own sensory in/output are interpreted by the brain via electrical impulses. "I think therefore I am."
