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If we add up that we are being poisoned with everything and yet we are still alive, then it is completely understandable that we must be destroyed by wars, because according to them the only way to kill us is! There is no fairy tale, we have to be beaten to death, because the human body is so excellently created that there is no other way to get rid of us!

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People are being slowly turned into semi-synthetic creatures. They (which includes me) can be killed anytime without much effort or its even being noticed.

In a way, "they" have already gotten rid of "us," but that's not the end of the story; what you are saying about adaptability is what I am planning to write about soon.

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Excellent observations.

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Thank you, but it doesn't matter. What matters is what YOU, combining them with your current stance, will make out of them.

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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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In my 15-year-long experience of working with "doctors," I have seen it all... Maybe, that should be part of my introduction that currently introduces me as a linguist and an AI researcher...

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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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It looks like a few more links would come in handy. Or, perhaps, an article of your own, perhaps linked to this one; you always excel!

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Like these?

Wampold BE, Minami T, Tierney SC, et al.: The placebo is powerful: estimating placebo effects in medicine and psychotherapy from randomized clinical trials. J Clin Psychol. 2005; 61(7): 835–54. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15827993| https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.20129

Lynch D, Laws KR, McKenna PJ: Cognitive behavioural therapy for major psychiatric disorder: does it really work? A meta-analytical review of well-controlled trials. Psychol Med. 2010; 40(1): 9–24. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19476688| https://doi.org/10.1017/S003329170900590X

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