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"Psych PhDs generally don't do frontline stuff"

Ok, to be fair, I did roll my eyes at a few of their terms. However, you are mostly arguing out of scope/training.

Psychiatrists are not researchers, they are MDs.

They are generally pretty smart people, and I admire their work.

But MDs have next to zero formal training in research, methodology, or statistics, and even fewer have taken courses in the theory or philosophy of science or knowledge.

That's why MD/PhD programs exist, or MPh degrees, so the MDs can learn how to do research properly.