
I doubt whether, in any real science, a member of this "caliber" would be able to last this long before he is outed and exposed as a complete fraud. While Sharma's shame is rightfully the subject of this particular article, there is a far deeper issue(s) here starting with our (as in "We the people...") standards for what we accept as "scientific". Our tolerance must be so low that we have rendered ourselves blind to the fact that a subject like psychiatry must be a bunch of bunk after all. Otherwise this guy would have never made it this far.
I mean, if this same thing were to happen in, say, the aerospace industry, the evidence of planes dropping from the sky, or engines blowing up, or what have you, would expose him as a non-scientist almost immediately, don't you think? In psychiatry, I think they are so used to hearing themselves continuously espouse so much absolute shite that they can't tell the difference between a faker and the real McCoy any longer.
"A psychiatrist who regularly appeared as an expert on the BBC [my emphasis] has been struck off the medical register after he lied about his academic qualifications and performed unethical drugs tests on mentally ill patients."