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Eiko Fried
Personal blog · eiko-fried.comsciencehealth
Eiko Fried's personal blog at eiko-fried.com covers science and health. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Antidotes to Cynicism Creep in Academia”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Eiko Fried's posts on the history of psychiatry and the DSM's diagnostic categories. The one comment here discusses whether the DSM lumps too many conditions together.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Eiko is a psychologist, methodologist, and nearly photographer. On this website, you'll find his CV and information about his work, blog posts, papers, talks, videos, and other resources.
Most-linked posts?
- Antidotes to Cynicism Creep in Academia2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-30
What Hacker News says?
I disagree with some of your premise, but agree in general. I sort of think of this as a "science vs engineering" problem. Science can be patient for the correct answer, but engineering needs a good-enough model of the problem to make something work today. Enter the DSM, which is on the engineering side of the aisle. It provides common terminology but is almost certainly lumping too many things together. So if your…
Comment linking /the-replication-crisis-hits-psychiatry-no-candidate-genes-for-depression/
on “The Troubled History of Psychiatry”Submitted Welcome to Hotel Elsevier: you can check-out any time you like – not as a story · 151 points
HN discussionSubmitted Antidotes to Cynicism Creep in Academia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zombie theories: why so many false ideas stick around as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Antidotes to Cynicism Creep in Academia as a story · 1 points
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