--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > [...] > > > > None of this is to say that there aren't too > > > > many antidepressants being prescribed, simply that > > > > a claim that "one-third of the adult population > > > > of the U.S. and many other countries" based on > > > > the number of prescriptions written is almost > > > > certainly *wildly* exaggerated. > > > > > > The original may have said "one third of all prescriptions > > > written for adults are for anti-depressants"... > > > > Very possibly. That's why I wanted to see the > > original quote (and possibly why Barry didn't > > want me to be able to find it). > > See what I mean about stalking, folks? This isn't > about the number of people on antidepressants at > all. It's about finding some way to discredit > Barry/Unc.
Not true. I'd have questioned the figure no matter who mentioned it, because it's obviously way off. > And this subject has been used to do > so ever since it was brought up years ago on a.m.t. > after I attended a talk by Helen Caldicott and she > used this figure. And this, Barry *knows* is not true; it's a deliberate misstatement. I had never questioned it on alt.m.t until the most recent time Barry brought it up, in April 2004. And he failed to respond in any way. > It may or may not be correct; > at the time she cited Medecins sans frontieres, > an organization that is firmly in the "not only > are too many psychotropic drugs being prescribed, > but the actual numbers prescribed are being hidden > by the drug companies in their reporting" school > of thought. The question is whether Barry correctly represented what Caldicott said concerning the Medicins sans frontieres study. If she said what he claims she did, she's as lacking in common sense as Barry is. Chances are, as Lawson pointed out, what she said was that one-third of the prescriptions written in the U.S. are for antidepressants, which is a very different statement than that one-third of Americans take antidepressants. The latter conclusion cannot be derived from the former figure. > I don't know the answer. And is obviously not interested in finding out, nor even considering the reasons why his statement was unlikely to be accurate. > I do know that my attempt > to treat Judy as a human being and interact with > her as if she could get past her compulsion to try > to discredit me in any way possible was a failure. Go back and review the exchange, and you'll find that my posts to Barry about this were entirely polite, until *he* decided to get testy and stop treating *me* as a human being because I had dared to question something he said, and went on to misrepresent both the exchange and what had gone on in the past on alt.m.t. 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/
