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Here's a story you probably won't have heard about :- Eco-loonies reject an inconvenient truth The founder of the Weather Channel in the US says Al Gore should be sued for fraud. John Coleman says that's the only way all the evidence about "climate change" can be properly challenged. He insists the great global warming scare is a huge scam, and says he has scientific proof to back him up. Coleman doesn't deny that weather cycles change, and he admits that carbon emissions are higher than they were, say, 300 years ago. But he says carbon in the atmosphere amounts to only 38 particles in 100,000. And far from "global warming", the Earth is actually in a cooling-down phase. If all the available evidence on both sides was presented to a court, rationally and soberly, he's convinced he would win the argument. Coleman made his remarks on Fox News after speaking at a conference on climate change in New York. None of the major networks touched the story, and neither did the big city papers, which buy the Gore line wholesale. There's been little or no coverage here, since the broadcast media, in particular, has taken leave of its senses over "climate change". Most news bulletins these days are little more than party political broadcasts by Greenpeace, who put the "mental" in environmentalists. They're like the lunatics who walk up and down Oxford Street wearing sandwich boards and screaming that The End Of The World Is Nigh. Politicians have a vested interest in peddling this swindle. It's the latest way of bullying us and picking our pockets. Coleman insists that in a couple of years most of us will wake up and realise that we've been had. It's fair to assume he has some idea of what he's talking about, since - unlike most of the hysterical doom-mongers - he's been a meteorologist all his life. Sometimes you do need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. If the eco-loonies and climate change fascists are convinced they're right, why not let their theories be tested forensically in court? Surely they're not afraid of an inconvenient truth?
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No scientific proof ADHD exists
I WRITE regarding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) that was recently covered in the Dispatch. It is said to be the disorder from which nine-year-old Levi Richards, who was controversially excluded from Broomhill Junior School in Hucknall, suffers. The current trend of labelling children with psychiatric disorders, like ADHD, has a fundamental flaw that psychiatrists have been working desperately to conceal. The flaw lies in the inability to produce any test to confirm the presence of such a disorder. That doesn't mean children don't experience problems, such as low self-confidence, having few friends or spending a lot of time alone. Also it doesn't mean parents don't have days when they pull their hair out, concerned over what to do and which way to turn. What it does mean, however, is that a psychiatrist cannot produce any tangible evidence to support his or her claim of a chemical imbalance, neurobiological disease, brain-based disease or any other esoteric term they decide to use to justify labelling a child with ADHD. As presented in countless illustrations in psychiatric and medical journals, the brain has been dissected, its parts labelled and analysed, while the public has been assaulted with the latest psychiatric theories of how the physical and chemical composition of the brain determines behaviour, mental disorders, or disabilities. What is lacking, as with all psychiatric theory, is scientific validity. Metaphorically speaking, children are being psychologically kitted out with the 'Emperor's new suit', a designer label, worn by the boisterous, argumentative, defiant, inattentive, disruptive, forgetful child or adolescent. But how much longer can this pretence be kept up? Well, the fabric of the label is starting to wear thin. Consultant clinical child psychologist Nick Radcliffe and consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist Sami Timimi observe: "As diagnosis (of ADHD) is based on the observation of behaviours alone, this has led to a kind of 'open season' where anyone can 'have a go' – teachers, parents, school doctors, welfare officers and so on. As the construct becomes more widely known within any community, confidence in making provisional diagnoses grows too." Now, however, the deconstruct is becoming more widely known. Claims that ADHD is under-diagnosed and that accompanying mind-altering psychiatric drugs are under-prescribed are futile statements when requests for scientific evidence to support ADHD go unfulfilled, rebutted, or are simply ignored. Furthermore, the fashionable notion of a chemical imbalance as the cause of mental disorders is entirely negated when one considers that no-one knows what a chemical balance would look like. The common denominators in this charade are opinions and vested interests. Manufacture a psychiatric label, shroud it in medical legitimacy and concoct an expensive chemical. Then give it to children and adolescents, produce nullifying effects and hail this as demonstrably effective. In fact, all that has happened is the child or adolescent has been drugged, and is exhibiting the effects of a dangerous, mind-altering foreign substance in his or her body. There is no therapeutic value. I urge the public not to be taken in by the unscientific and ill-founded psychiatric labelling that has become accepted as scientific fact when, in reality, it is nothing more than opinion. BRIAN DANIELS Citizens Commission on Human Rights (UK), East Grinstead, West Sussex. |
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