XPost: sci.med.psychobiology, misc.health.alternative, sci.skeptic   
   From: Ronnie@RonnieMarks.org   
      
   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.   
      
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   Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going some place   
   else.   
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