--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'd love to see a source for this "statistic." > > > > I strongly suspect it's bogus. > > > > > > Originally quoted at a public talk by Dr. > > > Helen Caldicott, referencing a study by > > > the organization Médicins sans frontieres. > > > > Is it on the Web? Can you give me a URL? > > When was the talk given, or when was the > > study done? > > You snipped the answer to your questions > in your reply.
I did *no* such thing. You didn't answer any of those questions, first of all, anywhere in your post. And here's the only part I snipped: > Interestingly, the same organization just > released similar stats for France that > indicate that the usage of antidepressants > here is even higher. That took me aback. > I asked my personal doctor here (whose > practice is in the affluent 7th arrondis- > sement) about it and he shook his head > and said, "The percentage among my patients > is probably even higher. They come in and > request the drugs; I almost have to prescribe > them." Now, please show me where the answers to my questions appear in the above paragraph, or admit you were not telling the truth. > I gave you the information above years > ago, and you never did anything to follow > it up then, either. Nope, that's not true either. You've made a number of similar claims. The only time I ever asked you to document it was in April 2004. I asked in the thread in which you had made the claim--as did another poster-- and when you did not respond, I asked in another thread as well. You did not respond there either. > I have no need to, > or interest in doing so. <snicker> And you complain about TM making claims it can't back up. > If you want to know more, I suggest, as > I did in the sentence you snipped, that > you find it yourself. I didn't snip that sentence, I quoted it, as you know. *You* snipped it from your response. (ANONYMOUSFF, are you reading this?) I shouldn't have to, since you made the claim, but I did a search on Caldicott + antidepressants and Médicins sans frontieres + antidepressants and couldn't find anything to the effect of your claim. > Given what I know > of Dr. Helen Caldicott and her reputation > for never saying anything she can't back > up, I am content with her word. I don't doubt she said *something* about a study MSF did on antidepressants. I'd like to know exactly what she said, and I'd like to see the study. My own observation of both Caldicott and MSF, while I'm very much in sympathy with their positions, is that they have a tendency to overstate their cases. My observation of you is that you frequently misstate what other people have said. That's why I'm asking for documentation. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
