I've
written and published many words explaining why the diagnostic tests
for the coronavirus are unreliable, inherently worthless, wrong-headed,
and deceptive.
This is not the first time "testing madness" has been launched. Far from it.
In fact, there is a whole branch of medicine which diagnoses patients based on NO TESTS AT ALL.
I'm talking about millions of patients. And untold billions in profits. Stretching out more than a century.
In
my continuing series of articles about the China epidemic, I raise the
question of medical experts' track record of deceit. Why? Because, how
can you trust what they say about the so-called epidemic, if they have
an unparalleled history of lying and obfuscation?
Why, for
example, should you take, at face value, their claim that they've found a
single virus which is causing a major outbreak of disease?
Professional liars should not be accorded such a level of respect.
In
their wretched track record, we come to the whole subject of medical
psychiatry. This is where real and deep human suffering---from many
different causes---is professionally re-channeled into arbitrary
categories of so-called "mental disorders," requiring treatment with
devastating drugs. The fraud is wall to wall.
Before we take
this journey, a warning: Suddenly withdrawing from psychiatric drugs can
be very dangerous, even life-threatening. Withdrawal should be done
gradually, supervised by a caring professional who knows what he's
doing. See Breggin[dot]com.
---Let's screen everybody to find
out if they have mental disorders. Let's diagnose as many people as
possible with mental disorders---
The first question to ask is:
do these mental disorders have any scientific basis? There are now
roughly 300 of them. They multiply like fruit flies.
An open secret has been bleeding out into public consciousness for the past ten years.
THERE ARE NO DEFINITIVE LABORATORY TESTS FOR ANY SO-CALLED MENTAL DISORDER.
No defining blood tests, no urine tests, no saliva tests, no brain scans, no genetic assays.
And along with that:
ALL
SO-CALLED MENTAL DISORDERS ARE INVENTED, CONCOCTED, NAMED, LABELED,
DESCRIBED, AND CATEGORIZED by committees of psychiatrists, from menus of
human behaviors.
Their findings are published in periodically
updated editions of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (DSM), printed by the American Psychiatric Association.
For years, even psychiatrists have been blowing the whistle on this hazy crazy process of "research."
Of
course, pharmaceutical companies, who manufacture highly toxic drugs to
treat every one of these "disorders," are leading the charge to invent
more and more mental-health categories, so they can sell more drugs and
make more money.
In a PBS Frontline episode, Does ADHD Exist?,
Dr. Russell Barkley, an eminent professor of psychiatry and neurology at
the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, unintentionally spelled
out the fraud.
PBS FRONTLINE INTERVIEWER: Skeptics say that
there's no biological marker-that it [ADHD] is the one condition out
there where there is no blood test, and that no one knows what causes
it.
BARKLEY: That's tremendously naïve, and it shows a great deal
of illiteracy about science and about the mental health professions. A
disorder doesn't have to have a blood test to be valid. If that were the
case, all mental disorders would be invalid...There is no lab test for
any mental disorder right now in our science. That doesn't make them
invalid.
Oh, indeed, that does make them invalid. Utterly and
completely. All 297 mental disorders. Because there are no defining
tests of any kind to back up the diagnosis.
We are looking at a science that isn't a science. That's called fraud. Rank fraud.
There's
more. Under the radar, one of the great psychiatric stars, who has
been out in front inventing mental disorders, went public. He blew the
whistle on himself and his colleagues. And for years, almost no one
noticed.
His name is Dr. Allen Frances, and he made VERY
interesting statements to Gary Greenberg, author of a Wired article:
"Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness." (Dec.27, 2010).
Major media never picked up on the interview in any serious way. It never became a scandal.
Dr.
Allen Frances is the man who, in 1994, headed up the project to write
the latest edition of the psychiatric bible, the DSM-IV. This tome
defines and labels and describes every official mental disorder. The
DSM-IV eventually listed 297 of them.
In an April 19, 1994, New
York Times piece, "Scientist At Work," Daniel Goleman called Frances
"Perhaps the most powerful psychiatrist in America at the moment..."
Well,
sure. If you're sculpting the entire canon of diagnosable mental
disorders for your colleagues, for insurers, for the government, for
Pharma (who will sell the drugs matched up to the 297 DSM-IV diagnoses),
you're right up there in the pantheon.
Long after the DSM-IV had been put into print, Dr. Frances talked to Wired's Greenberg and said the following:
"There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it."
BANG.
That's
on the order of the designer of the Hindenburg, looking at the burned
rubble on the ground, remarking, "Well, I knew there would be a
problem."
After a suitable pause, Dr. Frances remarked to
Greenberg, "These concepts [of distinct mental disorders] are virtually
impossible to define precisely with bright lines at the borders."
Frances
might have been obliquely referring to the fact that his baby, the
DSM-IV, had rearranged earlier definitions of ADHD and Bipolar to permit
many MORE diagnoses, leading to a vast acceleration of drug-dosing with
highly powerful and toxic compounds.
If this is medical science, a duck is a rocket ship.
To
repeat, Dr. Frances' work on the DSM IV allowed for MORE toxic drugs to
be prescribed, because the definitions of Bipolar and ADHD were
expanded to include more people.
Adverse effects of Valproate (given for a Bipolar diagnosis) include:
* acute, life-threatening, and even fatal liver toxicity
* life-threatening inflammation of the pancreas
* brain damage
Adverse effects of Lithium (also given for a Bipolar diagnosis) include:
* intercranial pressure leading to blindness
* peripheral circulatory collapse
* stupor and coma
Adverse effects of Risperdal (given for "Bipolar" and "irritability stemming from autism") include:
* serious impairment of cognitive function
* fainting
* restless muscles in neck or face, tremors (may be indicative of motor brain damage)
Dr.
Frances label-juggling act also permitted the definition of ADHD to
expand, thereby opening the door for greater and greater use of Ritalin
(and other similar amphetamine-like compounds) as the treatment of
choice.
So...what about Ritalin?
In 1986, The
International Journal of the Addictions published a most important
literature review by Richard Scarnati. It was called "An Outline of
Hazardous Side Effects of Ritalin (Methylphenidate)" [v.21(7), pp.
837-841].
Scarnati listed a large number of adverse effects of
Ritalin and cited published journal articles which reported each of
these symptoms.
For every one of the following (selected and
quoted verbatim) Ritalin effects, there is at least one confirming
source in the medical literature:
* Paranoid delusions
* Paranoid psychosis
* Hypomanic and manic symptoms, amphetamine-like psychosis
* Activation of psychotic symptoms
* Toxic psychosis
* Visual hallucinations
* Auditory hallucinations
* Can surpass LSD in producing bizarre experiences
* Effects pathological thought processes
* Extreme withdrawal
* Terrified affect
* Started screaming
* Aggressiveness
* Insomnia
* Since Ritalin is considered an amphetamine-type drug, expect amphetamine-like effects
* Psychic dependence
* High-abuse potential DEA Schedule II Drug
* Decreased REM sleep
* When used with antidepressants one may see dangerous reactions including hypertension, seizures and hypothermia
* Convulsions
* Brain damage may be seen with amphetamine abuse.
Let's
go deeper. In the US alone, there are at least 300,000 cases of motor
brain damage incurred by people who have been prescribed so-called
anti-psychotic drugs (aka "major tranquilizers"). Risperdal (mentioned
above as a drug given to people diagnosed with Bipolar) is one of those
major tranquilizers. (source: Toxic Psychiatry, Dr. Peter Breggin, St.
Martin's Press, 1991)
This psychiatric drug plague is accelerating across the land.
Where
are the mainstream reporters and editors and newspapers and TV anchors
who should be breaking this story and mercilessly hammering on it week
after week? They are in harness.
Here's a coda:
This one is big.
The so-called "chemical-imbalance" theory of mental illness is dead.
Dr.
Ronald Pies, the editor-in-chief emeritus of the Psychiatric Times,
laid the theory to rest in the July 11, 2011, issue of the Times with
this staggering admission:
"In truth, the 'chemical
imbalance' notion was always a kind of urban legend - never a theory
seriously propounded by well-informed psychiatrists."
Boom.
Dead.
However...urban
legend? No. For decades the whole basis of psychiatric drug research,
drug prescription, and drug sales has been: "we're correcting a
chemical imbalance in the brain."
The problem was, researchers
had never established a normal baseline for chemical balance. So they
were shooting in the dark. Worse, they were faking a theory. Pretending
they knew something when they didn't.
In his 2011 piece in
Psychiatric Times, Dr. Pies tries to protect his colleagues in the
psychiatric profession with this fatuous remark:
"In the past 30
years, I don't believe I have ever heard a knowledgeable, well-trained
psychiatrist make such a preposterous claim [about chemical imbalance in
the brain], except perhaps to mock it...the 'chemical imbalance' image
has been vigorously promoted by some pharmaceutical companies, often to
the detriment of our patients' understanding."
Absurd. First of
all, many psychiatrists have explained and do explain to their patients
that the drugs are there to correct a chemical imbalance.
And second, if all well-trained psychiatrists have known, all along, that the chemical-imbalance theory is a fraud...
...then why on earth have they been prescribing tons of drugs to their patients...
...since those drugs are developed on the false premise that they correct a chemical imbalance?
The chemical-imbalance theory is a fake.
There are no defining physical tests for any of the 300 so-called mental disorders.
All
diagnoses are based on arbitrary clusters or menus of human behavior.
The drugs are harmful, dangerous, toxic. Some of them induce violence.
Suicide, homicide.
Prozac, in fact, endured a rocky road in the
press for a time. Stories on it rarely appear now. The major media have
backed off. But on February 7th, 1991, Amy Marcus' Wall Street Journal
article on the drug carried the headline, "Murder Trials Introduce
Prozac Defense." She wrote, "A spate of murder trials in which
defendants claim they became violent when they took the antidepressant
Prozac are imposing new problems for the drug's maker, Eli Lilly and
Co."
Also on February 7, 1991, the New York Times ran a Prozac
piece headlined, "Suicidal Behavior Tied Again to Drug: Does
Antidepressant Prompt Violence?"
In his landmark book, Toxic
Psychiatry, Dr. Breggin mentions that the Donahue show (Feb. 28, 1991)
"put together a group of individuals who had become compulsively
self-destructive and murderous after taking Prozac and the clamorous
telephone and audience response confirmed the problem."
Breggin
also cites a troubling study from the February 1990 American Journal of
Psychiatry (Teicher et al, v.147:207-210) which reports on "six
depressed patients, previously free of recent suicidal ideation, who
developed intense, violent suicidal preoccupations after 2-7 weeks of
fluoxetine [Prozac] treatment. The suicidal preoccupations lasted from
three days to three months after termination of the treatment. The
report estimates that 3.5 percent of Prozac users were at risk. While
denying the validity of the study, Dista Products, a division of Eli
Lilly, put out a brochure for doctors dated August 31, 1990, stating
that it was adding `suicidal ideation' to the adverse events section of
its Prozac product information."
An earlier study, from the
September 1989 Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, by Joseph Lipiniski, Jr.,
indicates that, in five examined cases, people on Prozac developed what
is called akathisia. Symptoms include intense anxiety, inability to
sleep, the "jerking of extremities," and "bicycling in bed or just
turning around and around." Breggin comments that akathisia "may also
contribute to the drug's tendency to cause self-destructive or violent
tendencies ... Akathisia can become the equivalent of biochemical
torture and could possibly tip someone over the edge into
self-destructive or violent behavior ... The June 1990 Health
Newsletter, produced by the Public Citizen Research Group, reports,
'Akathisia, or symptoms of restlessness, constant pacing, and
purposeless movements of the feet and legs, may occur in 10-25 percent
of patients on Prozac.'"
The well-known publication, California
Lawyer, in a December 1998 article called "Protecting Prozac," mentions
other highly qualified critics of the drug: "David Healy, MD, an
internationally renowned psychopharmacologist, has stated in sworn
deposition that `contrary to Lilly's view, there is a plausible
cause-and-effect relationship between Prozac' and suicidal-homicidal
events. An epidemiological study published in 1995 by the British
Medical Journal also links Prozac to increased suicide risk."
A
shocking review-study published in The Journal of Nervous and Mental
Diseases (1996, v.184, no.2), written by Rhoda L. Fisher and Seymour
Fisher, called "Antidepressants for Children," concludes: "Despite
unanimous literature of double-blind studies indicating that
antidepressants are no more effective than placebos in treating
depression in children and adolescents, such medications continue to be
in wide use."
In wide use. This despite such contrary information and the negative, dangerous effects of these drugs.
There
are other studies: "Emergence of self-destructive phenomena in children
and adolescents during fluoxetine treatment," published in the Journal
of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1991,
vol.30), written by RA King, RA Riddle, et al. It reports
self-destructive phenomena in 14% (6/42) of children and adolescents
(10-17 years old) who had treatment with fluoxetine (Prozac) for
obsessive-compulsive disorder.
July, 1991. Journal of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry. Hisako Koizumi, MD, describes a thirteen-year-old
boy who was on Prozac: "full of energy," "hyperactive," "clown-like."
All this devolved into sudden violent actions which were "totally unlike
him."
September, 1991. The Journal of the American Academy of
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Author Laurence Jerome reports the case
of a ten-year old who moves with his family to a new location. Becoming
depressed, the boy is put on Prozac by a doctor. The boy is then
"hyperactive, agitated ... irritable." He makes a "somewhat grandiose
assessment of his own abilities." Then he calls a stranger on the phone
and says he is going to kill him. The Prozac is stopped, and the
symptoms disappear.
[What is true about Prozac is true about
Paxil or Zoloft or any of the other SSRI antidepressants. And be
warned: suddenly withdrawing from any psychiatric drug can be extremely
dangerous to the patient.]
Dr. Breggin, referring to an official
directory of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-III-R, writes that
withdrawal from amphetamine-type drugs, including Ritalin, can cause
"depression, anxiety, and irritability as well as sleep problems,
fatigue, and agitation." Breggin then remarks, "The individual may
become suicidal in response to the depression."
The well-known
Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics reveals a
vital fact. It states that Ritalin is "structurally related to
amphetamines ... Its pharmacological properties are essentially the same
as those of the amphetamines." In other words, the only clear
difference is legality. And the effects, in layman's terms, are obvious.
You take speed and, sooner or later, you start crashing. You become
agitated, irritable, paranoid, delusional, aggressive.
In Toxic
Psychiatry, Dr. Breggin discusses the subject of drug combinations:
"Combining antidepressants [e.g., Prozac, Luvox] and psychostimulants
[e.g., Ritalin] increases the risk of cardiovascular catastrophe,
seizures, sedation, euphoria, and psychosis. Withdrawal from the
combination can cause a severe reaction that includes confusion,
emotional instability, agitation, and aggression."
What do the medical experts who make pronouncements about epidemics and psychiatry have in common?
They
went to medical school. They served internships and residencies. They
were trained to believe they were the only authorities in their fields.
They
permit no basic criticism of their work---for example, they would never
consider the charge that the virus supposedly responsible for an
epidemic has never been adequately tested for, or isolated, in
patients. In the same way, they would never seriously consider the
implications of the fact that there are no defining laboratory tests for
any so-called mental disorder.
They believe they are kings of knowledge, and no one else has the truth.
They must protect their turf.
They rely on government protection and collusion and endorsement to sustain their basic lies.
They are "born from the same egg."
"We are MEDICAL. Therefore, we are right."
As I've been demonstrating in this, and other articles, they're WRONG.
Destructively wrong. |
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