Oh, I read it. And the full statement is more damning than merely saying the manual lacks validity. "DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure." Cheesus. That's awful. And the 1980 edition was called horsetrading. "...much of the research that existed was really a hodgepodge—scattered, inconsistent, ambiguous." Terrible.

At any rate, the NIMH has relied of the manual for so long, it probably doesn't have anything better to switch to at the moment. Psychiatry will continue to drift, not moored to much except what government funding dictates. The word "genetics" crops up in the article, so I hope we're not going to return to Hitlerian psychiatry. All that eugenics stuff.