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I've found this at:  http://www.addclinic.com/8-3.html
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Perhaps the role of "E.T." as the most popular movie of all time
reflects this desire we all have for the validity of the mystical, the
unusual, and the incomprehensible...something we cannot grasp, nor
control; something incredible. 
There is, however, a problem: as Dr. Sagan cogently asserts, he, of
all people who would be most fascinated  who has spent a career
studying the cosmos has examined the evidence for aliens among us and
found no  evidence whatever of any contact by any alien life forms.
There is, further, no evidence crystals, magnets,  various herbal
remedies, mirrors, regressions, possessions, nor any of the myriad
rambling of man's imagination  to be anything other than false,
fraudulent, and the stuff gullible people believe when they cannot
employ effective skepticism. 
ADHD in children and adults has been subjected to the most rigorous
scientific testing imaginable. There are now  over 200 books, and many
thousands of professional papers on this subject, dating back to 1937.
Almost all of these publications are in intensively and carefully
"peer-reviewed" journals, i.e., no baloney is allowed. This condition
has been studied, documented, and accepted by the scientific,
professional and academic community worldwide; contributors to the
development of theory and treatment span several disciplines
(Psychology, Psychiatry, Medicine, Pediatrics, and Neurology) and
include the top professional staff of every major American and most
overseas Universities. 
The figure of 4% of American children suffering from ADHD comes from
professors at Johns Hopkins and Yale, among other universities and
institutions. The P.E.T. scan studies come from National Institute of
Mental Health in Bethesda, MD, the nation's leading research
institution. Drs. Rapaport and Swedo's recent MRI studies were also
conducted at NIMH. Genetic studies about ADHD are ongoing at many
different universities worldwide. 
AN INCREDIBLE CURIOUSITY: now that we are on the verge of gene
identification, now that we have P.E.T. scan data on the biochemical
aspects of the condition, and now that we have MRI data showing the
location of brain tissue defects, and now that we know and can employ
a variety of medical agents to treat this condition, we have the
outcry of Anti-Science to render these advances impotent. We have Dr.
Peter Breggin, Montell Williams, and a host of gullible, fanatic,
stubborn and Flat-Earth Know-Nothings who try to dominate public media
and turn back the clock to the days of hysteria, passions and dreams,
visions and foolishness of a pre-scientific world. 
Sometimes those of us who seriously toil to try to explain the real
world of science and medicine and progress fail. Are we too complex,
too boring? ADHD is real and treatable within a modern scientific
context. REAL  medications and other treatments are effective.
Alternative interventions are fantasy. Consider. 
My comments:
Interesting points are made in this article. 
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