Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2011 Jul;20(3):557-64. doi: 10.1016/j.chc.2011.03.003. Epub 2011 May 10.
When mental health experts express their opinions in testimony, reports, and articles in professional literature, it is expected that their statements will accurately reflect the current state of knowledge. Experts may disagree about the data that they collected. In some cases, however, disagreement occurs because an expert has employed a methodology that is far outside usual procedures or simply disregarded objective facts. When that occurs, the expert's opinions may be considered ridiculous. The author presents examples of ridiculous statements by mental health experts and provides suggestions for how a forensic practitioner might address ridiculous statements by mental health experts.
当心理健康专家在专业文献中的证言、报告和文章中表达意见时，人们期望他们的陈述能准确反映当前的知识状况。专家们可能对他们收集的数据有不同的看法。然而，在某些情况下，分歧的产生是因为专家采用了远远超出通常程序的方法，或者干脆无视客观事实。在这种情况下，专家的意见可能被认为是荒谬的。作者举出了心理健康专家荒谬言论的例子，并就法医从业者如何应对心理健康专家的荒谬言论提出了建议。
