March 6, 2008 at 17:40:33

"Another child is diagnosed with autism every 20 minutes." And nobody protests this?

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And if it is, then why aren't we protesting this "War" as well? Why aren't a billion mothers out marching in the streets?

PS: Speaking of pushing pills for profit, did anyone else read that article about the phony placebo effect of anti-depressants?

"A study suggesting the widely prescribed antidepressants Prozac, Paxil and Effexor work no better than placebo for most patients who take them does not present an accurate picture of the research as a whole, a leading depression expert says," according to an article in WebMD Medical News.

"The research analysis included published and previously unpublished data submitted to the FDA by the manufacturers of the three drugs, as well as a fourth, Serzone, which is no longer sold in the U.S.... The researchers concluded that when taken as a whole, the data showed that only a small group of the most severely depressed patients benefited from taking one of the antidepressants." That's a hecka lot of profit for just a placebo. 227 million prescriptions were written for anti-depressants in the United States in 2006. And an additional 31 million were written in Great Britain.

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