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Proton Magic's avatar

Good summary Ray! Some comments:

👉On wrongly committing psych patients, indeed they do. There are also people who fake being a psych patient because the psych ward is better than welfare. Either way "the house wins".

👉On proving the "chemical imbalance" wrong, both the claim and the counter claim are pseudoscience.

The claim does not have a smoking gun mechanism to prove it (besides drug sales), the counter claim cannot rule-out there is no medical/chemical disturbance for some subset of persons. The problem is 1. due to the subjective nature of psychiatry, getting a pure this or that kind of patient to study is nearly impossible, and 2. not finding a mechanism in xyz patient(s) does not mean there is no mechanism. Studying brain function is like looking at the moon with a set of binoculars, you can only see so much.

→ Psychotherapy is also pseudoscience because there has never been (there can't be) a patient-blind (defined as single blind) clinical trial to eliminate hope and expectation, nor can therapists be blind (though a computer based intervention could be done the patient would still be unblinded). A "Randomized and controlled" study is just faking your way thru the no-blinding problem and on the same level of fakery as making virus genomes. As long as you do not claim talking to people is a treatment, brainstorming to find solutions is a good thing of course.

👉For cholesterol fear this paper is indespensible,

Is atherosclerosis caused by high cholesterol?

U. Ravnskov QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, Volume 95, Issue 6, June 2002, Pages 397–403, https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/95.6.397

👉I saw this on the Roman Empire SS, "To sell chemotherapy as a 'therapy' is most likely the biggest deceit in the history of medicine. Whoever masterminded this chemo-torture deserves a monument in hell."—Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer M.D.

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Crixcyon's avatar

Excellent madical medicine review. Very interesting in that you saying the body on drug chemicals will become reliant on them. That is a good way to think about it. Humans survived for thousands of years under terrible conditions without the use of drugs. Why do we need them now?

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