Posted by Klavot on July 11, 2006, at 6:45:49
In reply to Re: couldn't have said it better myself, posted by linkadge on July 10, 2006, at 16:53:45
> You can't convince me by attacking his tone, to convince me, you'd need to attack some of the valid points he made which in themselves essentially still stand posed free of emotional tone.
Actually, I can. You *assume* his points are valid. When a quack like L. Ron Hubbard writes about psychiatry, I don't take it seriously, likewise here.
This is a man who wrote a book called "Commonsense Rebellion: Taking Back Your Life from Drugs, Shrinks, Corporations, and a World Gone Crazy". Sounds like something that the Church of Scientology would publish. He is a psychologist with probably no medical training.
Are you telling me that the thousands of medical scientists, and millions more medical doctors, who are behind contemporary psychiatry, are all wrong? That they are all in the pockets of Big Pharma? Like they say, no quack would be complete without a conspiracy theory.
If drug-based psychiatry is so flawed, then why are psychiatric hospitals at an all-time low?
It seems to me that there are some people on this board who, based on their own isolated anecdotal exeriences with psychiatric drugs, are hell-bent on discrediting these drugs.
I would also be careful to take everything that I read on the net seriously. The internet is often the medium of quacks, who are unable to have their work published in proper literature.
By the way, is is not a given that you MUST use a placebo in clinical trials. Often the efficacy of a treatment is compared not to a placebo, but to other well-established treatments, particularly where it is unethical to use placebo (for example cancer drugs).
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