Monday, June 20, 2011

Nobody Knows Anything and We Believe Them

Marcia Angell has an excellent series going in the New York Review of Books regarding the scant evidence that psychiatric medications offer anything but an "activated placebo effect" and why their use has grown so explosively.  



This article is more profoundly depressing that depression.  I often marvel at the way in which allegedly erudite persons deride the religiously faithful when even the erudite cling to faith tenaciously.  Does it matter if the faith to which one clings is the opinion of medical experts or a sacred text if neither have any demonstrable indicia of validity?

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