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[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

If you can't appreciate the storytelling and aesthetic qualities Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, you are a philistine, end of.

[Gray Connolly @GrayConnolly]

This should be at the back of every Australian's mind as we go forward ... your own super and your family home are the (so far) last untouched assets for Chalmersism to raid ... and each of Albanese & Chalmers misled us at the last election, already

[Tyler Black, MD @tylerblack32]

So @konstantinkisin are you willing to have a psychiatrist on to challenge Joanna Moncrieff's completely incorrect discussions of depression?

I'm happy to provide a list of statements that Joanna Moncrieff gave you that are 100% incorrect, exaggerated/overclaimed, or misstated

[Psychiatry Excellence @psycheureka]

A patient may genuinely want recovery and still struggle to move toward it.

Because if the brain cannot predict what recovery feels like...

The familiar pattern may remain easier for them to recognise as 'safe'...

Even when it is what continues to harm them.🧵👇

[Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok]

Why are people having sex in this guy's head?

[Murray Walters @Imm_listening]

Feeling ‘unsafe’ is almost universally a form of cry-bullying and most complaints that use this language should be summarily dismissed

[Murray Walters @Imm_listening]

AHPRA heeds the vexatious complaints of the most peculiar cry-bullies, paralyzing the careers of serious clinicians. And they do so because they are enamoured of their powers to impose a pompous loving-kindness and incapable of discriminating between important complaints and trivial, personality distorted time-wasters. Worse, they are frightened of them. They are not frightened of clinicians. No siree; they are gleefully brave there.

[George Dawson @dawso007]

@DrAnnieHickox This is the basic reality of psychiatry that few seem to acknowledge. The field exists because after all of the criticism is over and the smoke clears we are the people left trying to offer help and solutions.

[Murray Walters @Imm_listening]

The sophomoric production teams probably can't see the fuss, because they're midwit ABC clones, down a rung even from the droobs who write pieces for ABC online. The senior staff waving this through are the narcissistic culture warriors and the real enemies inside the gates.

[Gray Connolly @GrayConnolly]

@cjoye An honest reformist government would, like Howard in 1998, say we need a fresh mandate from the people for these changes - instead Chalmers will seek to ram these through with Greens connivance & the result will be further/final? erosion of what little public trust survived Covid

[Allen Frances @AllenFrancesMD]

5 Szasz memories:
1)50 yrs ago, I asked would he commit own child to protect her from suicide:"Allen, I'm father 1st, libertarian 2nd"

2)Szasz was far more sensible than Szaszians

3)He never treated sick patients

4)His worst mistake-working with Scientology

5)A very nice man

[Murray Walters @Imm_listening]

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there. A journey like no other, or so I imagine, because mothers have that singular bond, the closest of all things, and yet they must ultimately be left, if everything has gone wonderfully, hopefully followed by a return.
What a wild and special ride it must be.

[Murray Walters @Imm_listening]

@TimNichollsMP Along with many (most?) sensible clinicians, there are many mainstream, senior psychiatrists, who have never had anything to do with health politics in their lives, who are deeply concerned about the direction of ‘gender care’, and the role of @ahpra. Most of us have never gotten off the sidelines for anything or anyone. We’ve sat back and tut-tutted the NDIS pathologising of dorky boys, the psycho-stimulant epidemic and other cultural contagions because, well … for all the reasons sensible people get on with their lives and livelihoods. Eye-rolling seemed enough. But I’ve never seen such reluctance to speak out on any issue as I've seen on this one. Maybe we’re afraid that gender ideologues and their allies are the most persistent, organised and aggressive complainants we’ve ever encountered and the most likely to succeed before the regulator.

No one's career is worth an AHPRA sanction or the relentless punishment-by-process that is the reflexive starting point of an AHPRA complaint. AHPRA have terrifying powers that are properly exercised to stop incompetent doctors, impaired doctors and doctors who exploit or mutilate their patients, but are now used to intimidate and silence doctors under an elastic code of conduct. AHPRA's scope, conduct and manner is now so broad and frankly flamboyant, it resembles, and perhaps it sees itself, as a cultural institution. The excesses of AHPRA's language in its recent response to the Australian Newspaper contain all the modish buzzwords of psychological and cultural comforting and nothing about, for instance, drunk GPs or mutilating surgeons, which most doctors think is its job, and it's only job.

As it stands, kids are in agony, parents are in agony, and very few competent people are able to stare down the threats of suicide and allegations of psychological and cultural torture that go along with holding what were, until a few years ago, mainstream opinions. Mainstream opinions about child safety are now 'unsafe', a word thrown around like Minties at a kid's birthday party. Allegations, or even the possibility that someone may be made to feel psychologically 'unsafe' are paralysing clinicians into silence and inaction.

The issue of 'gender care' has alarmed some of us like never before. We have never seen our colleagues lose their way so badly. Actually, like us, our errant colleagues are increasingly irrelevant because junior and unskilled practitioners, making up things as they go, have joined the cultural zeitgeist, and the issue has well and truly escaped medical care, other than prescribing medication and surgery.

The Minister needs to get out in front here, somehow.

[Murray Walters @Imm_listening]

Yet again, @AHPRA sprays the usual self-serving motherhood guff. For a start, it is not AHPRA's business to be 'proud' of their clinicians, and, frankly, the clinicians could care less. The charge against AHPRA is that they are in breach of their duty to supervise 'safe care' for minors, and they have, at times, upheld complaints brought by severely disturbed people cloaking themselves in the modish memes of marginalisation and discrimination, at the expense of careful clinicians. No one has the right to feel 'safe' from proper interrogation of self-identity when it is potentially, and sometimes solely, the gateway to crazy treatments and lifelong disability. Forget robust debate, they've been asleep at the wheel while zealots drove the ship onto the rocks.

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!: https://t.co/P6OXoPOlwR

[Murray Walters @Imm_listening]

Shonks AND waste!
So many people want to ‘get on’ the NDIS without any idea why. Don’t know what they want or need, just that’s life’s not good and something is free.

‘Go after the shonks…Don’t tear it down’: Shorten warns Labor over NDIS cuts https://t.co/3oAxlwZo6y

[Brett Hall @ToKTeacher]

There's something worse about AI-Doomers compared to other doomers (climate catastrophists, nuclear apocalypse, killer virus, etc). At least other Doomers aren't saying "stop learning more". AI-Doomers are in many circumstances arguing for *exactly* that when you pay attention.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

A common experience: Many brilliant scientists cannot grasp elementary philosophical distinctions. Last night I could not get a colleague to understand the difference between the "hard" (sentience, subjectivity, experience) and "easy" (reportability, information access) senses of "consciousness." Nor the difference between a definition of consciousness and various explanations of consciousness. Hypothesis: scientists tend to equate rigorous thinking with mechanistic explanation, and don't recognize that abstract concepts requires sharp analysis as well.

[Murray Walters @Imm_listening]

Whatever shall become of safety?

[Murray Walters @Imm_listening]

No one, particularly fixated nasty complainers, has the right to walk into a doctors surgery ‘safe’ in the knowledge that the doctor doesn't have views on important matters of iatrogenic harm, cultural contagion, parental abuse and major public issues of civilizational discord.