Re: Autism risk linked to older fathers


"Mark Probert" <markprobert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Autism risk linked to older fathers: study 2 hours, 37 minutes ago

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Children fathered by men at age 40 and older have a
higher risk of developing autism, possibly because of mutations or other
genetic changes, researchers reported on Monday.


The study "provides the first convincing evidence that advanced paternal
age is a risk factor for autism spectrum disorder," said the authors from
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, and the Institute of Psychiatry,
King's College London.

more....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060904/hl_nm/autism_dc_1

study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

LOL! Poor Mark.

http://www.newstarget.com/z019418.html

NewsTarget.com printable article
Originally published June 13 2006
Psychiatry and disease mongering: Road Rage Disorder is latest spontaneously
"discovered" disease
Disease mongering has reached a new level of ridiculousness with the
widely-reported announcement that millions of American now have undiagnosed
Road Rage Disorder, also sometimes called Intermittent Explosive Disorder
(IED). Desperate to scrounge up new diseases that can be treated with
high-profit prescription drugs, Big Pharma and its disease-pushing sidekick,
psychiatry, is now pulling diseases out of thin air, making them up as it
goes along, and hoping enough impressionable consumers (and journalists) can
be hoodwinked into thinking every fictitious disease is actually real.
Road Rage Disorder is merely the latest disease quackery drummed up by the
pharmaceutical industry. Many people don't know this, but Big Pharma
actually hires psychiatrists to invent, then publicize new "diseases." They
actually sit around in rooms, brainstorming new disease ideas and figuring
out how to convince the public that those diseases exist. That's where they
come up with junk science statements like, "This is the most common disease
you've never heard of!"


Inventing disease for profit
The psychiatric community has now become the disease invention branch of Big
Pharma. Psychiatrists dream up disorders, and drug companies market the
"treatment" that just happens to have been recently FDA approved. Notice how
new diseases or disorders only get publicized and advertised after the FDA
approves a Big Pharma drug to treat them? These diseases apparently
spontaneously afflict huge numbers of Americans only in the days following
the FDA approval of any drug that might treat such diseases. Imagine the
odds.
To think, all these years, we've all been running around with Intermittent
Explosive Disorder and we didn't even know it! The horrors!

The crooks running this medical scam are, of course, the drug company
executives and psych doctors who have apparently decided they will now do
absolutely anything to sell more drugs, including labeling perfectly healthy
people as sick. As the number of truly ill people in society is limited, Big
Pharma evil geniuses have figured out that the only way to increase their
customer base is to start selling drugs to people who aren't sick. And the
quickest way to do that is through disease mongering -- inventing, then
marketing non-existent diseases to a gullible population that has grown far
too comfortable with the idea that every human behavior is now a disease.

This is how we get Road Rage Disorder, Restless Legs Syndrome (an extremely
rare condition that drug companies are now trying to push onto half the
population) and even the idea that menstruation is now a "disorder" that can
be treated with drugs to stop a woman's natural cycles from being expressed.
Merely being a woman, apparently, is a state of ongoing disease and
biological dysfunction according to Big Pharma's disease pushers.

It's so outrageous, and based on such obvious non-scientific psychobabble,
that only a complete fool would actually buy into it. Yet the public, the
FDA and the mainstream media are currently exhibiting zero skepticism about
these wholly fictitious diseases. Newspapers, magazines and broadcast news
programs continue parroting headlines and press release handed to them by
the public relations firms bankrolled by Big Pharma. There is no science
here; no scrutiny, no genuine journalism and nothing resembling
"evidence-based medicine." It's just plain old hucksterism dressed up to
look like a mental health discovery.


Got angry? You have a mental disorder.
The whole thing makes me so mad that I could slam my head into the wall. And
that, of course, qualifies me as having Intermittent Explosive Disorder, a
disease based on such flimsy definitions that you can be qualified as "ill"
by simply having three major anger outbursts in your entire life! You read
that right: Three bouts of anger, over your entire life, can get you labeled
as having this so-called "disease" and put on powerful psychotropic drugs
for life.
Is there anyone who hasn't experienced at least three episodes of anger in
their life? Let's see... there's the snotty girl who stuffed a slushy
snowball down my pants in the third grade, that's one. There was the idiot
who slammed into my car at a stoplight because he was on prescription
sleeping pills, that's two. And then there was the embarrassing incident
involving a circus bear, a unicycle and three flaming juggling sticks that
I'd rather not talk about. That's three. Gee, I guess I really am suffering
from IED.

You might recognize the three letters, by the way: IED also refers to
Improvised Explosive Devices that are killing soldiers in Iraq. So IED is
both a road-side bomb and an anger disorder. Sort of fitting, it seems,
because when IEDs actually explode and kill American troops in Iraq, the
surviving soldiers understandably get more than a bit ticked off and have
been known to go door to door shooting civilians in a vengeful rampage. That
behavior may actually qualify as some sort of disorder. That's real
violence. Going door to door killing women and children with military rifles
probably qualifies you as a whacko under any system of medicine. But saying
you have Road Rage Disorder because some psychiatrist force-fed a false
diagnosis into your impressionable, defenseless brain only qualifies you as
gullible.


Pseudoscientific psych surveys
How, exactly, did psychiatrists actually come up with this stunning
"discovery" that 16 million Americans suffer from this new disease, IED? Get
this: They conducted a survey.
The survey asked American adults if they had ever experienced three anger
outbursts in their entire life. Not surprisingly, a whole lot of people said
they had. From this flimsy evidence -- and this alone! -- the Archives of
General Psychiatry (a medical journal that takes loads of money from drug
companies) printed the survey results that hype this fictitious disease.

Apparently, surveys now provide all the evidence needed by conventional
medicine to scare half the population into believing they suffer from some
new, mysterious disease. Promoters of drugs and surgery are proud to
proclaim Western medicine is "evidence-based medicine," but they never admit
what that so-called evidence is really based on. In this case, it's based on
a flimsy survey that was obvious designed from the get-go to "discover" some
new disease that could be hyped up in the media.

It's downright sinister, I say. It's a recipe of instilling fear in the
public in order to sell more drugs to people who simply don't need them.

So I have a new idea here. Stay with me on this. We're all going to get
rich. I'm going to send a survey to thousands of American adults and ask if
they've ever experienced hesitations in their breathing, like holding their
breath, shallow breathing or rapid breathing (such as during exercise).

When I get the survey results, I'm going to tabulate them and declare that
25 million Americans now suffer from Intermittent Breathing Disoder (IBD), a
disease that's "very common even though you've never heard of it!"

Then I'm going to get fast-track FDA approval on drugs to treat IBD. I'll
buy full-page ads in medical journals, bribe a few psychiatrists with
"consulting fees," and whip out some press releases that will be faxed to
all the national newspapers and magazines. Drug sales will skyrocket in no
time! Invest in my IBD company now, and we'll all get rich!

Sounds like a con, right? Yet it's exactly what's happening right now with
Restless Legs Syndrome, Road Rage Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder and even
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Every one of these is utterly
bogus. Completely fictitious. Designed for one sinister purpose: To sell
drugs to people who don't need them.

As reported in one news story, "Experts claim IED is caused by inadequate
production of serotonin in the brain, which regulates our moods. It is felt
that treatment with antidepressants can help the condition."

Ah. Antidepressants. No such disorder is ever publicized, you see, unless
there's a "treatment" already available and approved by the FDA. Modern
mental health has nothing to do with actually helping people and everything
to do with marketing more drugs. No mental disorders exist except those for
which medications are readily available.


No pathological basis for disease
Have you ever heard of doctors using a survey to come up with disease
definitions? Of course not. A real disease has some observable pathology: A
microbe, a physical deformity, a change in chemistry, a measurable
malfunction... something that can be used by doctors to actually diagnose
the condition.
But none of these psychiatric disorders express any observable pathology.
Take IED, for instance:

Can you weigh IED? Touch it? See it? Smell it?
No.

Can you see IED or its effects under a microscope?
No.

Can you measure IED with a blood test?
No.

Is there a carrier for IED such as a virus, bacterium, fungus, prion or
spore?
No.

Can you find IED in the genetic code? A CAT scan? An MRI?
No. No. No.


Behavior is a choice
You see, there is no such thing as IED, or bi-polar disorder, or ADHD. These
fictitious diseases are diagnosed through interview questions by a
psychiatrist and are based purely on behavior, not pathology. And behavior
is a choice, friends, not a disease.
That's a big statement, so take it in slowly: Behavior is a choice, not a
disease. I fully realize that believing this requires taking responsibility
for your own actions... and that's not something many people really want to
do. It's easier to accept a label and blame everything on some fictitious
disorder.

Kids get away with it all the time. At school, they proclaim, "I'm ADHD!" So
they get to take tests with an open book. But at home, they play Halo on the
Xbox for six hours without even taking a restroom break. How's that for
mental focus? If they have an attention disorder, how can they play Halo for
six hours?

Many people, you see, don't want to admit that behavior is a choice simply
because that would require acting like an adult. Harsh, but true.


The catch-22 on mental disorders
Psychiatrists don't believe behavior is a choice, either. They believe
behavior is a disease, especially behavior that doesn't fit in with the
crowd or that questions authority. They even have a name for that one, too:
Oppositional Defiance Disorder, described on page 100 of the DSM-IV-TR
manual. I'm looking at it right now, and it says this "disease" is
characterized by, "...persistent stubbornness, resistance to directions, and
unwillingness to compromise, give in, or negotiate with adults or peers."
So if you don't compromise and give in to your peers, you have Oppositional
Defiance Disorder. Well count me in on this one, too, because I'm not about
to join the uninformed masses and do what doctors and psychiatrists insist
people should do.

It's a clever Catch-22 medical con, isn't it? If you give in and submit to
their disease mongering, they trap you with such sweeping definitions of
disease that practically everyone will eventually be put on drugs. But if
you resist and claim that modern psychiatry is nonsense, and you don't buy
into their pseudoscientific psychobabble, they can label you with a defiance
disorder.

Either way, according to modern psychiatry, virtually everyone is "sick" and
needs treatment. This astonishing claim is the cornerstone of the
psychiatric mantra you often find repeated in news stories: The plea for
treatment. It goes something like this: "Millions of people have this
disorder, but are going without treatment. We must find a way to treat
them!" The implication, of course, is that all patients should be "treated"
because we don't want people to go without treatment, do we?

But it isn't treatment. It's the exploitation of a human being to generate
corporate profits.


Consensus hallucinations
The idea that all these psychiatric disorders exist at all isn't based on
good science, or genuine pathology, or anything with scientific merit.
Rather, these diseases only "exist" in modern society because of consensus
hallucination.
What is consensus hallucination? It's when a large group of people all agree
to hallucinate something that isn't there. IED doesn't exist in the real
world, of course. You can't find it in nature, nor in the body or brain
tissues of a human being. It only exists as a false concept, an idea that is
being hyped as real even though it isn't.

With enough media coverage and advertising, the public can be convinced to
hallucinate practically anything: Saddam Hussein was responsible for the
9-11 terrorist attacks. Housing prices will keep going up forever. The U.S.
economy is strong. Imperialism is freedom. And most of the population
suffers from a variety of mental disorders that must be treated with
psychotropic drugs. These are all consensus hallucinations. There are many
more, in case you're curious.

During the dot-com boom, the consensus hallucination was that PE ratios
meant nothing, that the laws of economics had changed, and that everybody
was going to get rich selling each other little scraps of paper with
increasingly large numbers written on them. In the cheap-money housing boom
right now, the consensus hallucination is that buying a home, no matter how
high the price, is always a good investment because home prices will rise
forever. They won't, of course. This boom will bust much like the dot-com
boom. But that reality doesn't keep people from investing in the consensus
hallucination.

Modern psychiatric medicine is based almost entirely on the invention and
marketing of consensus hallucinations. And as long as they can get away with
it, there's no stopping the disease mongers from exploring even greater
degrees of scientific fraud in their efforts to market drugs to people who
don't need them.


Every bodily function and behavior may be declared a disorder
How far will the drug companies go before lawmakers, journalists and
citizens come to their senses and finally ban direct-to-consumer drug
advertising? You can expect them to try anything to sell more drugs. No
bodily function, emotion or behavior is safe from Big Pharma's disease
mongering racket.
It won't be long before we hear about IFD. That's Intermittent Farting
Disorder, in case you were wondering. It's the early expression of CFD,
Continuous Farting Disorder, which is far more dangerous. Farting, you see,
is a disease. You can tell by the way it makes you dizzy and socially
unacceptable. Farting, the studies show, actually leads to Social Anxiety
Disorder and, in extreme cases, paranoia. Fortunately, there are drugs
available to help you.


Buying in to the hallucination
Since when did virtually the entire medical community, the public, the FDA
and the press all buy into the Big Pharma hype that says every human action
must be chemically assisted? We all need drugs, we're told, to pee,
defecate, fall asleep, wake up or get an erection. We need drugs to feel
happy, confident, sexy or sane. Only through drugs, we're told, can we stop
pain, socialize with peers, control blood pressure, gain mental
concentration, lower cholesterol or prevent cancer.
This is the con that drug companies want us to believe. They want us to
think that we're born diseased, powerless to take control over our own
health, and that we must rely on doctors, drugs and radical surgical
procedures to "manage" all our metabolic processes.

I tell you, there is no greater con in the history of the world than this
con being perpetrated by Big Pharma and all the major players in
conventional medicine: The FDA, medical journals, psychiatry, med schools
and even the mainstream media (which, remember, accepts hundreds of millions
of dollars in advertising from drug companies, thanks to the fact that
direct-to-consumer drug advertising is still absurdly legal in this
country).

You want the blunt truth on all this? Here it is: Healthy people take no
drugs, period. Taken for anything other than short-term acute conditions,
drugs make you sick, not healthy. And drugs that mess with your head make
you mentally sick. The more drugs you take, the more side effects you're
going to start experiencing, and you'll be trapped in the racket of
conventional medicine and its toxic medications.

If you aren't as healthy as you want to be, look to your diet and exercise.
That's where the root cause of virtually every major degenerative disease is
really found. You do not have a "deficiency" of brain chemicals or anything
else conventional medicine is trying to push on you. Don't fall for the
false authority, the pseudoscience, the psychobabble, the drug pushing and
the disease mongering that now defines modern medicine in the West.


Mental health is a genuine problem for psychiatrists
Although IED, ADHD and many other so-called diseases are consensus
hallucinations, the obvious question is: Are there genuine mental health
disorders?
Sure there are. And the behavior of modern psychiatrists probably
demonstrates several such genuine disorders. What kind of doctor would
exploit patients for his own financial gain, cursing them with the label of
some fictitious disease and using the power of placebo against them? Psych
doctors, that's who.

I've seen homeless people wandering the streets talking to themselves about
things that don't exist. But at least they're not hurting anyone.
Psychiatrists, on the other hand, talk to each other about things that don't
exist (like IED) and then go out and push that consensus hallucination onto
the world, drugging up untold numbers of Americans on medicines that can
only harm them.

So who's crazier, the homeless guy who harms no one, or the psychiatrist who
puts perfectly normal patients on powerful psychotropic drugs that they
don't need? By any reasonable standard, I'd say the inmates are running the
asylum in modern medicine. The psychiatrists are crazier than the patients
they're diagnosing with fictitious disease. We've let this dark branch of
conventional medicine run amok, and now drug companies run psychiatry.

Don't believe me? Just consider the recent finding that one hundred percent
of those psychiatrists who wrote the behavior disorders guidelines in the
DSM-IV manual (the psychiatry "bible") have undisclosed financial ties to
drug companies. Not ninety percent, not ninety-five percent, but one hundred
percent.

And, unbelievably, they insist there's no conflict of interest even though
they're taking money from the very companies who financially benefit from
their disease mongering. How's that for classic self delusion?


What real brain medicine looks like
You want real brain medicine? It doesn't come in a pill, and it's not made
by a drug company.
Real brain medicine includes sunshine (which actually enhances brain
chemistry), exercise, fish oil supplements, omega-3 oils and nutritionally
dense fruits like blueberries, goji berries and pomegranates. Real brain
medicine comes from nature, not drug companies, and it includes things like
bilberry, camu camu berries and astaxanthin.

Psychiatrists don't have a clue about real brain medicine. These
nutritionally illiterate hucksters don't even believe that food has anything
at all to do with mental health -- an idea so preposterous that only
delusional health professional could possibly believe it. And yet it's
widely believed throughout psychiatry today: Food and mental health are not
related, they declare.

Astonishing.


Who's qualified to talk about mental health anyway?
Critics of my criticism of psychiatry will no doubt say I'm not qualified to
talk about mental health. In fact, I am unique qualified to talk about this
subject because I possess genuine objectivity (I take no money from drug
companies, unlike virtually 100% of psychiatrists) and clear-headed thinking
(because I take no drugs whatsoever).
How many psychiatrists are there who can say they have never taken money or
gifts from any drug company, and that they take absolutely no drugs
themselves? (No prescription drugs, no caffeine, no sugar, no alcohol,
nicotine, etc.) The answer is, well, just about zero, except for the
whistleblowers in the Critical Psychiatric Network and other reform-oriented
medical groups. And so the majority of psychiatrists themselves can't even
attain clear-headed thinking because they're influenced by drug company
money and distorted by their own substance abuse habits.

The few who have managed clear thinking on this issue are now increasingly
speaking out against their own industry! I've been in touch with several
psychiatrists who are so outraged at the lies and corruption they see in
their industry that they're looking for ways to blow the whistle on this
scam. To anyone who can think with even a little clarity, the con is
obvious: Drug companies bankroll psychiatry, and in return, psychiatrists
invent new diseases to enrich drug companies.

It's a classic conspiracy, right here in front of us. And for the moment,
they're actually getting away with it!

You can help stop the insanity and save yourself (and your children,
perhaps) from being diagnosed with yet another fictitious mental disorder.
Take this article and post it on your website (with author credit and a link
back, please), or forward to friends. Also, visit www.StopDrugAds.org, a
grassroots campaign to end direct-to-consumer drug advertising.


Having a bad day is perfectly normal
By the way, if you had a bad day, got angry at a crazy driver on the
highway, couldn't fall asleep one night, forgot where you put your keys or
felt nervous at a social gathering, there's nothing wrong with you.
It's called "life." Sometimes stuff happens. Every day isn't perfect, and if
you think that chemicals will make your life better, you're kidding
yourself. That old slogan, "Better living through chemistry" was a cruel
joke.

Don't fall for the con of psychiatric medicine and its incessant disease
mongering. There's nothing wrong with your head. You just need what we all
need: Less stress, more exercise, better nutrition (especially the
minerals), more time with nature and loving, supporting relationships. It
isn't complicated.

But if reality sounds too challenging, I'm sure there's a psychiatrist
willing to medicate you instead. You can always choose to let the chemicals
run your thoughts and emotions, sleep-walking through life like the rest of
the zombies who have surrendered their free will to psychiatric medicine.

Psychiatrists are promising mental paradise, but delivering mental prison.
Don't become enslaved by chemicals.


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