Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Cute Psychiatric Word Games

My friend Dean Blehert has been busy looking up words.
Here's his candid report on what psychiatric jargon means: Psychiatric jargon explained.

Read it and you'll be able to withstand the onslaught of psycho-babble that will come at you when you try to point out that drugging 8 million American children might not be a good idea, or that treating post partum depression with drugs might be the wrong tack to take.

Psychs love to talk about the effectiveness of a "double-blind peer-reviewed study" -- they fail to point out that it is usually full of holes and BAD SCIENCE to boot.

The scientific method, as Dean eloquently points out, when used correctly, is used to DISPROVE one's theory, not to prove it. Only if it stands up to an effort to DISPROVE it, are you getting close to doing actual science. The drug companies employ psych "researchers" who work it backwards to try to make their studies make the drugs look like they work.

Like I said - pseudoscience at work.

Saturday, July 09, 2005

Psychiatry = Pseudoscience

Definition of pseudoscience from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fourth edition:

pseudoscience: A theory, methodology, or practice that is considered to be without scientific foundation.

Doesn't that describe the wayward step-child of medicine that votes to determine what is a mental disease (like "Math disorder") and what isn't (homosexuality)? Doesn't that definition of pseudoscience describe the theory of brain chemistry imbalance? The psychs can't give anyone a single scientific test to demonstrate that a "chemical imbalance" actually exists, much less that their drugs fix such an imbalance.

It's an horrific mass of lies and betrayals.

"Pseudo" is from Latin, meaning: False, deceptive, sham.

Now here are some people who have been working for more than 30 years to expose the lies and show psychiatry for what it is, the chief pusher for the profit-driven drug companies:

Saturday, July 02, 2005

OF COURSE psychiatry is a psudo-science.

Lots of stuff on the airwaves these days about Tom Cruise and the kerfluffle with Brooke Shields and her book touting psych drugs as the remedy for post partum blues. (Here's a clue - they are NOT!)



Here's one MD's take on Shield's position:
Doctors Lambast Shields’ Dangerous Position on Paxil



How about this one: AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION ADMITS THERE IS NO TEST FOR "CHEMICAL IMBALANCE"



Here's an article about the rampant over- and mis-prescription of dangerous drugs for post partum depression: Abusing women in the name of psychiatry, prescription drugs



Maybe they'll be kind to Brooke Shields and name the syndrome after her a few years from now. Drugging of defenseless women should hereafter be called "Brooke Shields Syndrome." What a legacy to leave behind!



Here's a great article by Citizen's Commission on Human Rights, one of the only groups around that stands up to the arrogant asses prescribing mind-altering drugs to toddlers in the name of "help": "Psychiatry is a Pseudoscience"



I like this one too: AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION ADMITS



Here's something long overdue from the FDA: FDA ALERT ON VIOLENCE AND SUICIDE-INDUCING STIMULANTS



It's about time that people are listening to this psychiatric watchdog group: PSYCHIATRIC WATCHDOG SPEAKS OUT ABOUT TOM CRUISE SPEAKING OUT and this release PSYCHIATRIC WATCHDOG SPEAKS OUT ABOUT TOM CRUISE SPEAKING OUT