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I've had this question lately also, and now have another reason for asking.

The idea you're raising, the differential efficacy of CBT, is a myth originating in the politics of psychiatry and psychology, especially in the 70s and 80s. There is abundant evidence for psychotherapy, but no evidence that any type is better than any other, especially when you control for publication bias. It's the "common factors" phenomenon, where therapies that have some baseline characteristics all do about equal. It's well documented and known, but people in the field often pretend it doesn't exist.

There may be some tendency for some therapies to work better for some people more than others, but identifying how to match people to therapies hasn't been demonstrated well or replicably.

Citation please, preferably a meta-analysis.

Important topic but strawman examples in many ways.

In most of the important cases, you will have never heard of what could have been.

Also, often the problem is that better ideas weren't developed as much as they could have been. That is, we look back and compare the inferior but dominant product that was revised and revised because of it's problems and dominance, and the superior but abandoned product in it's unimproved state, which is some sort of survivorship bias.

The OP has a point but it's exaggerated.

This only highlights the moral emptiness and naked corruption of the modern GOP.

Deregulation is fine if you strengthen the ability of citizens to obtain redress through the judicial system. If you weaken that ability, or it is weakened, you increase regulation.

But they're both deregulating and restricting judicial redress, which only increases power of those who don't need it.

Companies either are liable or not; these clauses preventing class action lawsuits seem baseless to me.

Why isn't this getting way more attention? It seems fundamental.

Another problem with no spaces is that it is difficult to use editors, word processing software, etc. because the dash and surrounding words are treated as one thing.

This came up in an editing and typesetting discussion one day. I've been convinced ever since that there should be at least a small space around em dashes.

As a psychologist, my experience is that lots of physicians, even psychiatrists, want testing and a diagnosis from a psychologist before prescribing, so it might look like the psychologist is prescribing, when they are just diagnosing.

Incidentally, psychologist prescribing happens in some states also.