XPost: sci.med.psychobiology, misc.health.alternative, sci.skeptic   
   From: markprobert@lumbercartel.com   
      
   Ronnie Marks wrote:   
   > Sometime near Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:01:01 GMT, Peter Bowditch   
   >  may have written:   
   >   
   >> William Morris  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2/11/07 12:35 PM, in article   
   >>> 1171218922.043700.196390@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "Psst"   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> "Chemical imbalance: it's a shorthand term really, it's probably drug   
   >>>> industry derived. We don't have tests because to do it, you'd probably   
   >>>> have to take a chunk of brain out of someone-not a good idea." Mark   
   >>>> Graff, Chairman of the American Psychiatric Association Committee of   
   >>>> Public Affairs.   
   >>> Is this the statement that you assert claims there are no chemical   
   >>> imbalances in psychiatry? If so, you should know that it doesn't really say   
   >>> that, does it? It just implies that the term is a very brief and simple   
   >>> description of a much more involved problem.   
   >> It is the job of Scientologists to deride psychiatry, not to tell the   
   >> truth about it, so it comes as no surprise that one of them would use   
   >> a quote like this. What is surprising is that Scientologists are   
   >> supposed to be very concerned about what words mean yet they exploit   
   >> even the most faint form of ambiguity.   
   >   
   > The real shame is that people who really care about the abuse and are working   
   > for some reforms are painted with the same brush as the kult kooks, making it   
   > much harder to even be listened to.   
      
   That is a superior point. The kult kooks are so vociferous that they   
   drown out those looking to make the system better for those who need it.   
      
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