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<blockquote data-quote="Days of Broken Arrows" data-source="post: 1210465" data-attributes="member: 4258">I am making this argument because the problem is doctors. They're selling bullshit like &quot;gender reassignment&quot; and so on. What I'm saying is the power needs to be taken out of their hands. fMRI -- and future technology -- will do just that.Look at it like a drug test. A doctor can say &quot;He seems normal to me&quot; but his opinion will be ruled invalid if the drug test comes up positive. fMRI is a test for mental illness that will 1). Make the inexact &quot;science&quot; of psychology irrelevant and 2). Relegate the opinion of doctors to being just that -- an opinion.As for technology being &quot;instantly abused,&quot; that's major conjecture on your part. I don't see blood tests being falsified. And I don't see X-Rays, MRIs, and CAT Scans being faked so the medical establishment can rake in more money. The question is why technology is being used everywhere else on the body, but not on the brain. When it gets to the brain, I think we'll see MORE honesty in diagnoses, not less...because there will be no choice.Td;dr. If you liken fMRI to MRI, this argument makes sense. It doesn't matter what some quack says. What matters is there on the screen.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Days of Broken Arrows, post: 1210465, member: 4258"] I am making this argument because the problem is doctors. They're selling bullshit like "gender reassignment" and so on. What I'm saying is the power needs to be taken out of their hands. fMRI -- and future technology -- will do just that. Look at it like a drug test. A doctor can say "He seems normal to me" but his opinion will be ruled invalid if the drug test comes up positive. fMRI is a test for mental illness that will 1). Make the inexact "science" of psychology irrelevant and 2). Relegate the opinion of doctors to being just that -- an opinion. As for technology being "instantly abused," that's major conjecture on your part. I don't see blood tests being falsified. And I don't see X-Rays, MRIs, and CAT Scans being faked so the medical establishment can rake in more money. The question is why technology is being used everywhere else on the body, but not on the brain. When it gets to the brain, I think we'll see MORE honesty in diagnoses, not less...because there will be no choice. Td;dr. If you liken fMRI to MRI, this argument makes sense. It doesn't matter what some quack says. What matters is there on the screen. [/QUOTE]

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