Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Depression is NOT caused by low serotonin levels and most drugs used to treat it are based on a myth, leading psychiatrist claims

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As Reported in the Daily Mail David Healy is head of psychiatry at the Hergest psychiatry unit in Bangor Claims the idea low levels of se...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

British Psychiatrist Adam Osborne is suspended AGAIN... over 'serious misconduct' with female patient

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From this Report in the Daily Mail Adam Osborne, 38, who has a private practice in Central London, last week had his licence suspended by ...
Monday, March 09, 2015

The Myth of the Chemical Cure: The Politics of Psychiatric Drug Treatment

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Video presentation by UNE Center for Global Humanities and its founding director, Anouar Majid, host Joanna Moncrieff on "The Myth of t...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Big Pharma backed the Affordable Care Act, but it has bankrolled a think tank mounting the legal assault on the law

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An investigative report: Big Pharma backed the Affordable Care Act, but it has bankrolled a think tank mounting the legal assault on the law...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Regulation needed to curb overprescribing of drugs for children, say advocates

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A Report from the LA Daily News Scrutiny of doctors who prescribe psychotropic drugs to California foster children intensified this week,...
Sunday, November 09, 2014

Psychiatrist and Fox News Channel analyst Keith Ablow freely mixes psychiatric assessments with political criticism, a unique twist in cable news commentary that some medical colleagues find unethical.

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Commentary by David Bauder as seen on the Website for Channel 10 WISTV in Columbia, South Carolina. Here are some snippets from the colum...
Wednesday, November 05, 2014

The British Parliament's Health Select Commitee has issued a damning report on the alarming failings in children’s mental health services

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You can read the report online here and download a PDF of the 179 page report as well. As reported in the Mirror: Thousands of mental...
Saturday, May 02, 2009

Waterboarding, Interrogations: The CIA's $1,000 a Day Specialists

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As reported on ABC News As the secrets about the CIA's interrogation techniques continue to come out, there's new information about...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

Top 10 Evil Human Experiments

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As seen on the List Universe. Human experimentation and research ethics evolved over time. On occasion, the subjects of human experimentatio...
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Monday, June 30, 2008

Judge sealed cases against psychiatrist - Two lawsuits among hundreds kept secret

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As reported in the Review Journal Prominent Las Vegas psychiatrist Robert L. Horne was the target of two lawsuits in four years, and both ca...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

It's for the Kids: Three major advocates of antidepressant use in children got millions of dollars from drug makers.

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From Wired Science Three prominent advocates of antidepressant use by children received millions of dollars from antidepressant manufacturer...

Convicted killer working as psychiatrist - Patients don't know he killed his wife

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From the Sydney Morning Herald : The family of a woman killed by her psychiatrist husband in 1987 is disgusted he was later able to be rereg...
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Monday, June 09, 2008

Grief Counseling Counterproductive

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The Scientific American Podcast has this typically “You need to talk about your feelings.” “Do you want to talk about it?” “We need to talk....
Friday, June 06, 2008

School — 1957 vs. 2007

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Quoted because of the observations on the psych abuse, but also because of the insights on political correctness As seen on Los Cuatro Ojos ...
Monday, May 26, 2008

State police seize documents from Massachusetts "shock" school

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The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton, Massachusetts is an institution that has long earned our distaste and disdain. So news of ...

Psychiatrist Pleads Not Guilty To Murder

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As covered widely in the Australian press, and as seen in the Australian A FORMER NSW psychiatrist has pleaded not guilty to the shooting mu...
Monday, May 19, 2008

First-ever government review shows fluoride may be toxic to the thyroid gland causing fatigue, weight gain, fuzzy thinking, depression, body pain, etc

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Of course, our interest is in the psychiatric malfunctions, and the misdiagnosis of these conditions as actual psychiatric ailments. As seen...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Psychiatric Drugs are the New Opiate of the Masses.

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We stumbled across an interesting post on the Intellectual Conservative political blog, entitled The Hard Truth about a Soft Science: Why Ps...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Drug Czar Plays Politics With Mental Illness, Suicide And Marijuana

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Via Furious Seasons , a report from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy . This comment at Furious Seasons hits the nail o...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Half of Americans are in some way mentally ill, and one-quarter of the population has taken anti-depressants, not including that one time at a rave

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Another person is waking up to the fraud the is Modern Psychiatry. An Editorial in the NY Sun , by Christoper Lane America has reached a poi...