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On April 25 2012 02:59 andyrau wrote: I disagree with the classification, but who am I to argue with Wikipedia and the american psychiatric association.
subjects in psychology are accepted as fact and are proven with case study after case study to prove them. You know, it's a science and the scientific community accepts them.
If it wasn't for eating disorders and plastic surgery, coupled with taking poor children away from there parents and working them to the bone to preform, we wouldn't have the K-pop we all know and love. I for one don't mind any of this, and can see how this type of thing has happened since the beginning of civilization. People have a distorted view of what life should be (no problems or hardships).
On April 25 2012 02:59 andyrau wrote: I disagree with the classification, but who am I to argue with Wikipedia and the american psychiatric association.
subjects in psychology are accepted as fact and are proven with case study after case study to prove them. You know, it's a science and the scientific community accepts them.
oh wait
Because an assertion not commonly believed to be true, backed up with no research or evidence whatsoever, is more likely to be true than an assertion made by the Psychiatric association that has utilizes tons of case studies to develop their classifications.
It's obviously not as solid as, say, the earth being round but to suggest that just saying something over the internet is somehow more credible and gives you a solid argument against the main psychiatric organization in the US, you're being ridiculous.
Was gonna stop at my last post but this last one made me facepalm so hard.
Agree with DystopiaX about this whole discussion of mental/eating disorders. While it's far from a perfect science, the authorities on the subject support his position, and they far outweigh random poster's opinions on the topic.
On another note, I've been out of the Kpop loop for the last couple of months due to real life obligations. Anyone care to catch me up on some of the more interesting/important developments? I feel like I've missed a lot, but don't have the time to go through previous pages or scroll through Allkpop and other news sites.
As in actual releases or news? Releases have been shitty but there's new 4minute, Sistar, Shinee, etc.
News wise I don't think there's been anything major really, same old drama sort of shit, tours being announced couple rumors etc. Nothing really major.
edit- oh T-ara is getting 2 new members for their next comeback. Guess that's news. SNSD subgroup is coming out soon as well. New Pledis girl group and AS will get a new member soon. DSP is launching a new male group as well. CCM is coming out with a new girl group which has a few former actresses and stuff. Weird because some of them seem to be a bit old to be idol age, mid 20s and all.
SkyR beat me to it while I was editing with things I remembered lol