ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) research science is actually conducted. There is corrupt science in which intentional bad science is knowingly displayed as good science. But the boundaries differentiating the two are malleable. If on one side of the border is acceptable empirical science, then everything on the other side is unacceptable. This chapter then is in part about the movement of boundaries, which has resulted in the once unacceptable made to seem not only acceptable, but also normal. The evidence for evidence-based treatments seems to be overwhelming. The second corruption is the means by which a statistical truth (likely to be true some of the time) comes to be camouflaged and misrepresented as a hard truth (true all the time). Also, the populations used for researching treatments of this kind are very skewed. Furthermore, spin is a form of deliberate confusion making. Its intention is to fool the listener into believing a false reality to be true.
