Even the New York Times gets it right occasionally. Some enterprising reporter there has not yet received their indoctrination that psychiatrists can do no wrong. Here’s an article about Drug company money paid to psychiatrists. The gist is that psychiatrists who take the most money from drug companies making antipsychotic drugs are the ones that […]
Archive | June, 2007
LRH House on Camelback
The house where L. Ron Hubbard lived in Phoenix, Arizona in 1952 has been restored to the way it looked then, including many of the original decorations, furniture, carpets, drapes and so on. It is (from what I’ve heard from people who visited it) like stepping into a time machine to the early 1950s. 1952 […]
Another psychiatrist who broke ranks…
David Kaiser, MD, (a psychiatrist) wrote an article in 1996 that makes the claim that “psychiatry has quite literally lost its mind”. Here’s the text of his article about biologic psychiatry and the problems with it. This practicing psychiatrist comes right out and says the same thing that CCHR has been saying for some time: […]
Beautiful day….
I couldn’t stand sitting at the computer through another beautiful afternoon, so Marie and I headed out for a walk. These were some of the photos I took as I hiked and she rode her horse (“Heavy”) up the hill behind our house to the lookout:Foxglove View Stonecrop-Covered Rock Face Stonecrop Flowers Sword Ferns All […]
Hippocrites’ Oath
Yes, I KNOW that’s mis-spelled. This cartoon from M.E. Cohen says it pretty well: [image link died]
Doomsday Called Off
This video from CBCNewsWorld called “Global Warming Doomsday Called Off” held my attention for its entire 44 minutes. It’s posted there on utube in its entirety, minus only commercials. If you want to know what all those crazy disbelieving skeptics are using for data–those crackpots who don’t share a belief in the near-universal “let’s blame […]
L. Ron Hubbard, the “science fiction writer”
L. Ron Hubbard wrote a lot of books. I have several bookshelves groaning under the weight of his books, and I re-read them at least once a decade, as I do C.J. Cherryh, Iain M. Banks, Robert Silverberg, and Vernor Vinge. From time to time I’ve seen blog postings from people who should know better, […]
Optimism is under-rated
I get a weekly email from “Cecile”, called the Optimism Newsletter. It is unfailingly optimistic and I find myself looking forward to it every Friday after the weekly barrage of bad news from regular news sources. That and Randy Casingham’s “This is True” newsletter (in which Randy re-phrases news stories, adding his own hysterically funny […]
The Gray Lady Buries JFK Plot story
The NY Times, furthering its attempts to demonize George W. Bush and the GOP, buried the story of the breaking up of the plot to blow up JFK airport on page 30 of its Sunday editions, between the obits and the chess collumn. It was good news (albeit a bit scary) and it directly related […]
“Bonkers Institute” is not so bonkers
I respect what one fed-up citizen named Ben Hansen (aka M. I Bonkers) is doing to bring some humor to his exposés of various psychiatric abuses in the state of Michigan. Documents he obtained under the Freedom of Information Action (FOIA) show alarming increases in psychiatric drug use and drug-induced movement disorders in children under […]