Tuesday, January 13, 2015

draw the line

Not published by the Metro. Do you find that predictable?

" Though cartoons should be free to criticise harmdoers, they should not be free to inflict personal harm themselves. Hence, unless you want to risk being sued for contributing to suicides, you should ban and refuse to publish cartoons like today's [Friday] Pearls Before Swine, gloating over the spectacle of unjust social attitudes causing loneliness. "

Je suis caring.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Why Psychiatry Holds Enormous Power in Society Despite Losing Scientific Credibility

www.alternet.org/why-psychiatry-holds-enormous-power-society-despite-losing-scientific-credibility

by Bruce Levine.

"In our increasingly fear-based society, psychiatry meets our own increasing needs for coercion."

"Influential “thought leader” psychiatrists and major psychiatry institutions, by their own recent admissions, have been repeatedly wrong about illness/disorder validity, biochemical causes and drug treatments. In several cases, they have been discovered to be on the take from drug companies, yet continue to be taken seriously by the mainstream media."