Nicholas Cummings' piece further surprised me when I learned that the American Psychological Association, which he led for two years, released a statement with scientific backing condemning professionals who treat people as if their homosexuality is a mental illness in need of a cure.
Al Gore in An Inconvenient Truth, has projected with scientific backing that if we emit only twice the amount of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases we do now, and if the temperature increases by only a couple of degrees, the almost three-kilometer thick Greenlandic inland ice will melt away.
Not all of them want to impose their lifestyle on others, but lots of them do and they often give advice on clean eating with no scientific backing.
Dr. Hare's clinical scale, called the Psychopathy Checklist, Revised, is one of the several psychological measures in forensic science with some scientific backing.
GP Sophie Lee Johnston thinks that clean eating is as much of a fad as anything else, with no scientific backing.
Cognitive behavioral therapy, the treatment with the most scientific backing for treating hoarding disorder, focuses first on a person's underlying cognitive and emotional barriers, before tackling their physical stuff, said Bratiotis.
"Promoting tests with little or no scientific backing runs the risk of inflating customer expectations and ultimately undermining consumer confidence in genuinely clinically useful genetic tests," he says.
Paradoxically in this sector, the United States, with its more open and democratic administrative process, has given science a stronger role in regulatory standards, compared with EC rules that have less scientific backing.
After all, if Piccard and Borschberg are 21st-century Icaruses, they are Icaruses with the finest technological, engineering and scientific backing behind them.
Cronin inspired scientists worldwide to reach further into the unknown with his humility, deep intuition, solid scientific backing, and poetic vision.
It's the no-nonsense, quick and relatively cheap approach to mental suffering – with none of that Freudian bollocks, and plenty of scientific backing.
