I’ve been thinking some more about Phil Plait’s “Don’t Be a Dick” speech from TAM8 and I keep coming back to what seems to be a bizarre demand from many people that Plait provide specific examples of dickery. Without that, they say, Plait was just attacking a straw man, and talking without evidence …...
I’ve just watched the video of Phil Plait’s “Don’t be a dick” talk at TAM8. This talk has spurred a lot of discussion and a lot of strong feelings around the place. It’s probably spurred varying degrees of reflection by sceptics on our own behaviour. Personally I know it’s made me think more about...
Psychiatry’s Peculiar Place I was struck today (not for the first time) by the peculiar place psychiatry has, in comparison to the other medical specialties. As psychiatrists we are one of only two groups in society who can detain people and restrict their basic freedoms. We can only do so in very closely-defined circumstances, but...
