Hi Jane,
 > AF> Don't know why you replied to me rather than the gentleman who wrote
 > AF> in the first place. I am not interested in psychiatry and certainly
 > AF> not in any form of diagnostic medicine. I am interested in health
 > AF> and thus in prevention and bodily cure. IOW I am not interested in
 > AF> "broken brains" but how they got "broken" in the first place and
 > AF> how to prevent this happening. Neither am I interested in the
 > AF> treatment (but maybe in the prevention) of genetic defects.
 > IF   YOU   WOULD   TAKE   THE   TIME   TO   READ  WHAT    ANDREASEN
 > and  other  authors  are   into   these   days,   you   would   learn
 > that   they  see   the   brain  as a  well designed  machine  without
 > all   of  the   mumbo  jumbo  that  goes   along   with  standard
 > psychiatry.
 I am getting a little concerned about the number of mails you send
 me..as my replies seem to lead to nothing most of the time in your
 case and are thus a waste of time and effort on both my and your
 part. When reading and considering the studies of our learned
 friends the researchers...you first have to ascertain the
 objective of their studies and for whom they are studying and
 why. This necessitates a bit of asking around (difficult for
 you in Internet and Fido I would agree as you do not get the
 other side of the coin...i.e. the silent...to you..protesters
 in other labs). Remember when Klaus Wiegand broke the
 sensational news that scientists had discovered that a bacteria
 was responsible for heart attacks. The news was about a year old
 when he broke it (and is still being upheld by the scientists
 concerned) but is still being repeated in the press and some
 less serious scientific journals. I shot him down with valid
 and serious quotes and opinions and he disappeared from here
 as quickly as he came (sad because he is more or less a
 neighbour of mine and we are working on a wild plant database
 together). I am not criticising Klaus here either..merely
 those scientists who are forced by their fund suppliers to either
 produce a product or a Nobel Prize or merely in need of some
 sort of recognition (if not from the scientific community
 then at least from the ignorant public at large). The latest
 and greatest hoax at the moment is helicobacter pylori
 being responsible for gastric ulcers (the pharma industry
 needs to sell more...rapidly becoming less effective...antibiotics).
 Alan
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