[gress]

All this is not relevant to the fact that there is no evidence for depression being caused by a chemical imbalance.

[roguecoder]

That we can fix it by changing the chemical balance is certainly evidence in support of it being caused by a chemical balance.

[zaroth]

Never mind a chemical balance being caused by depression!

[tedks]

Yes, the point of my post was not to argue for the serotonin hypothesis of depression. If you think that, might I suggest that you missed my point, and you should perhaps reread with an eye towards absorbing novel information and viewpoints rather than trying to classify literally everything as either on a FOR or AGAINST side in a binary argument?

[gress]

You were arguing that the absence of a blood test doesn't necessarily undermine chemical imbalance theories because of the complexity of the systems involved.

[tedks]

...this is still not my point. I was not addressing chemical imbalance theories at all.

Rather, I was trying to argue that the absence of a blood test doesn't make depression ascientific.

[gress]

Nobody is saying that depression is ascientific. The context of the thread was that chemical imbalance theories are ascientific.