Edit: It is ok to downvote if you disagree. But think what it says about you if you are downvoting facts.
edit: btw the way, I've been here for like 5 years now and I still don't know what flavor of Markdown is used here.
btw, I don't see how could you explain the second part of the experiment where were no fake patients at all as "gaming". If a mere expectation of a fake patient screws the results so much; your methods are garbage. This and other counter-arguments are mentioned on the wiki-page.
You posted something from 40 years ago.
The link mentions related experiments with similar results as recent as 2008.
Anyway, judging by "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders", Fifth Edition (DSM-5) (2013) there has been no paradigm shift in the last 40 years.
It seems DSM-5 is bad even by psychiatry's own standards. People use phrases like "false 'epidemics'" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5#Criticism
New DSM-5 Ignores Biology of Mental Illness http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-dsm5-ignores-b...
