“The publication of David Rosenhan’s ‘On being sane in insane places’ in Science in 1973 played a crucial role in persuading the American Psychiatric Association to revise its diagnostic manual. The third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) in its turn launched a revolution in American psychiatry whose reverberations continue to this day. Rosenhan’s paper continues to be cited hundreds of times a year, and its alleged findings are seen as crucial evidence of psychiatry’s failings. Yet based on the findings of an investigative journalist, Susannah Cahalan, and on records she shared with the author, we now know that this research is a spectacularly successful case of scientific fraud.”
https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X221150878 (PAYWALL)
Der Autor, der Psychiatriehistoriker Andrew Scull, hatte Zugriff auf das Recherchematerial der Journalistin Susannah Cahalan, deren Buch “The Great Pretender” er schon im Spectator 2020 gewürdigt hatte. Viel Neues steckt nicht in dem jetzigen Artikel.
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Klaus Graf (7. Februar 2023). Ein denkwürdig erfolgreicher Wissenschaftsbetrug in “Science” 1973. Archivalia. Abgerufen am 10. Februar 2025 von https://doi.org/10.58079/chcp