Person: Brian Daniels

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ADHD is not a mental illness, just junk science for commercial gains

Calling for a better diagnosis of so-called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is like asking the swindlers to make the Emperor’s new clothes out of better material.

ADHD based on junk science that reclassifies childhood behaviour

Link between psychiatric drugs and violence cannot be ignored

We pathologise normal behaviour

We’ve turned classrooms into labs

Beware psychiatrists’ advice on ADHD

If an idea goes unchallenged, it eventually becomes accepted as fact, even if there’s no evidence to support the idea being pushed.

Wed, 13 Nov, 2013

Psychiatry doesn’t deserve its status

Psychiatrists want to be viewed on a par with medical professionals but their practice of redefining life’s problems as so-called ‘mental disorders’ has resulted in them and their profession being held up to ridicule.

Tue, 26 Mar, 2013

McGarrity can move step closer to title

The weekend events north and south of the border provide an interesting contrast.

Fri, 08 Jun, 2012