(04-06-2025, 01:21 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(04-06-2025, 09:58 AM)Sneakers Wrote: Like you, I have absolutely no way of knowing.

It's quite plausible that he offered his patients some type of voluntary questionnaire/survey, which is not an ethical violation.  The accuracy of such information gathering can certainly be debated, but if said data was presented as collected, he wasn't lying either.

Sure.  
I was asking copycat but you can join in.
Suppose he has 100 patients.  How many of them would have to voluntary offer their political opinion before he would be able to say that his patients are 90% liberal.

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(04-06-2025, 01:12 PM)Jag149 Wrote: What I do know is from one random post and no other knowledge of the guy, you have labeled him a liar and or unethical.  Quite the feat seeing as his practice for all you know could be in Beijing and the liberals he is discussing believe in democracy. 

Then to make your position a bit more less valuable you said "Sure, Pythagoras had his detractors also.". Comparing oneself to famous people, often  can manifest as an obsessive fascination and can lead to feelings of inadequacy, low self-esteem, and even mental health issues  You have the right to your opinion and welcome to it. Be happy dude. Just do not claim it is absolutely true or anyone else has to believe it.

You're right that there isn't a lot to go on.  We have to fill in some blanks. We can fill them in one way, see what that conclusion would be, then fill them in the other way, and see what that conclusion would be.  We don't have to know the guy.  We just have to be able to use logic.
And when we do that, every plausible scenario ends with either "he lied" or "he was unethical."
Don't believe me? Explain a scenario that isn't.  Prove me wrong.

That has been done by countless posters in this string many times. Your making a judgement based on one text without any supporting evidence other than "I know better than everyone" which is not a valid assumption. Bottom line without any other information than a post on X the best that can be said is that is his experience in his practice. Anything more either way is indefensible.

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