Medical News

Yes, it was. Thanks for noting that. I also found the news amazing. 

This is where Dennis Prager would come in and say, "If scientific studies don't confirm conventional wisdom, then those studies are likely wrong."

We can say without a doubt that diet and exercise (lack of) can effect one's mood. And there are cases (exceptions are always used to create someone's rule) that chemical imbalances in the brain can cause problems.

But I would say this overall rush to prescribe "antidepressants" (other than money) is driven by a couple things:

+ The view that man is but a material creature (moral concerns are secondary or irrelevant).
+ People would rather take a pill than amend (let alone admit to) their own destructive behavior.

From the top-down perspective (again, aside from purely monetary concerns), the mostly atheistic "ruling class" prefers to think of mankind as a material thing. If you are fat, it's not because you eat too much. It's because you have "a thyroid problem." To acknowledge a moral dimension to this is called "fat shaming."

This is just one example. But hundreds abound, regarding every perverse or destructive human behavior under the sun. There's nothing wrong with you or your moral choices. It's the fault of "society." Or you just need to take the right pill. Almost completely absent is the idea of personal responsibility...the idea that you are most likely the reason you are "depressed."

Stop eating junk food. Get some exercise. Quite filling your head with the garbage on TV or social media. Most of these cultural cesspools are rampant with spreading the idea that you are a victim, that you are not responsible for shaping the world that you are in.

No doubt there are some people who have what we could term a biological propensity for depression. But even then, another aspect of this is that we all have different personality traits. There are different types of people, some more outgoing than others. Some more boisterous than other. And, yes, some more happy than others (all else being equal). This is where I diverge from what I think is Dennis Prager's (and our culture's) misguided and destructive emphasis on "happiness."

Most of the time we're just not going to be buoyantly happy as a norm. But that is the accepted and expected state of affairs today. So if you're not happy all the time, you must be "depressed." More importantly (and this really is the key to all this), when your unreasonable expectations of life go unmet, that is the cause for much unhappiness.

So we need to embrace more reasonable expectations of life. Yes, it's fine to pursue things that give you a sense of fulfillment or accomplishment. Even so, only a fool thinks that such pursuits will somehow kick on an ever-present "happiness" field that never goes aware or dissipates. Each day is different. And to some extent, each day is a struggle. That is reality. And reality is not popular these days, especially among the morally debased or the victim-minded.

Some are finally beginning to see the criminal behavior of the "medical" community in regard to "gender identity" problems. 

Biggest medical crime  


I think the KFF fraud and vaccine are a bigger crime, but this one is big enough. 

I would say the abuse of children's minds by the public schools and teacher's unions is the biggest scandal (medical, in that it is abusing their minds and psychology). But point taken.



It's worth noting again that no child is ever going to come to the conclusion, unassisted, that they need puberty-blocking drugs or gender reassignment. This is the result of weird and perverted adults imposing their views on children. Shame on any parent anywhere who kept their child in a school that had even a remote connection to this, as well to any kind of support of "transgenderism" which is the gateway drug to all this.



Oh, gee. Who woulda thought? I bet it took billions in research dollars to figure that out.



Yours Truly noted long ago that this was a function of groupthink instilled by "social" media, and not some real phenomenon of being a boy caught in a girl's body, or vice versa. (By the way, I'm a 17th century soul caught in a Progressive-21st century body).



Told you so. Told you so. told you so. And women drive this phenomenon because of their emphasis on emotional issues.



I'm sorry about the harm you caused to yourself, aided and abetted by adults (and a lot of hysterical women) but you are a dumb fuck for cutting off your breasts because of a desire for some kind of fashionable change. But at least you're now speaking out against this stuff, which is to your credit. A dollar short and a day late, but it's something.



I told you so. I told you so. I told you so. This is a chick thing.

Isn't that the truth. One of the sad things the Left had done is undermine trust in institutions...even when that trust was well-established and deserved. But now it is not deserved. The default position should be skepticism. Prove it. Show me.



Imagine one of these drug company clowns having an advertising where the disclaimer fast-reader at the end says all that stuff. At least it would honest...more honest.



If these are friggin' medical trials, imagine how many zombies (bots) that Twitter really has. I believe there is a deeper reason for all this fraudulence other than laziness or money. I know a lot of women have been fast-tracked into "research" (I have a niece) and I wonder how much Elizabeth Holmes you-go-girl stuff is woven into the fabric of the research industry. We mustn't question this data or else we're questioning the competence of a woman. Etc.

100%. This has long had me very pissed off. When people lose trust in their institutions, they become un-tethered from societal anchors. I am not saying that one has to slavishly accept everything those in power tell us. Rather I am saying that the institutions must do their best to ensure that they are standing for truth. I want the people who approve elevators in high rises buildings to know what they are doing and be honest. 

Chesterton's saying can be applied to cover many areas other than religion. 
The left has been undermining our institutions intentionally for decades. 

An interesting article on a study about the efficacy of colonoscopies. As would seem to so often be the case, the medical establishment appears to have adopted magical thinking over the years. This is common, especially if there is more money in it for the doctors.

Not so effective as claimed

That's shocking. I've always heard that you're taking your life in your own hands when visiting a hospital.

I wonder how those rates compare with Europe and the rest of the world.

Indeed, I recommend to my doctors that they watch George C. Scott in, The Hospital, at least once a year. So, far, to my chagrin, only one has admitted watching the movie and commenting on it. 

www.imdb.com/title/tt0067217/