In Reply to: RE: Very well put.. posted by slapshot on May 9, 2015 at 08:46:45:
First, I want to make it clear that no where did I say that all "scientist are corrupt".You did make an awesome point. The beginning of the end for the legitimacy of the current generation of psychotropics came about 35 years ago when clinical trial design and execution moved from the hands of academic scientists and universities to the hands of corporate scientists and for profit businesses and their minions, the paid psychiatrists (oh boy, here I go again, let the next onslaught begin). At that point, science went right out the window.
For the most part, I have the utmost respect for academic scientists but am always suspicious of corporate scientists and despise most psychiatrists (there are exceptions but they are very hard to find these days). Believe me, I know. I spent my entire career in the implantable medical device industry. I almost got fired on numerous occasions taking an uncompromising stand for quality against the managers, bean counters and corporate. For God's sake, we're dealing with lives here!
With that said, I am a firm believer in psychologists, therapists, counselors and alternative healers (at times I must suspend my logical mind) and the various modern talk therapies. Two of my all time favorite people and the reason I am alive today, are two very fine psychologists.
So thank you for pointing out that difference for others who may not be as knowledgable.
Open up your mind, in pours the trash. - Meat Puppets, 1987
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