This makes me sad.
, he claimed that “tremendous circumstantial evidence” suggested that people taking antidepressants were more likely to commit school shootings. (Actually, most school shooters were not taking those drugs, evidence shows.
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One here has nothing to do with the other. It’s a logical fallacy.
“Actually, most school shooters were not taking those drugs, evidence shows...”
I would like to know where the author found the data to research this.
I have seen marijuana frequently coming up with these criminals but there seems to be an unwillingness on the part of the media to do any solid research and followup on these shooting events with regard to drug use, hormones, hormone blockers, etc.
What Mother Jones means by "science" is the government-big pharma orthodoxy. I'd give more credence to RFK jr than to the CDC or FDA. They lie for profit.
My niece got so messed up with these meds..at the request for help from her sisters, her mother flew from NYS to Ca....and “burned” the doctor.
I think any publication being critical of President Trump and his administration should disclose how much government money they have received over the years.
The days of taking what the media reports as being true are over.
No more “...there is evidence...” without citing the evidence.
No more anonymous sources.
No more “...it has been reported...’ without checking the original source not just another media outlet quoting another media outlet.
I’ve taken low dose Prozac since 1987. It has made a normal life possible.
My dream is that he tells parents that they (almost always) DO NOT have to drug their kids...just SPANK them, at least when they’re young. Western society threw away 5,000 years of child-rearing history because of a few clowns, like Dr. Spock, insisted that the ‘new way’ was better.
Man, I have to ask - WHY would you post a story from that septic tank? Asking for a depressed friend ...
I’m on the Spectrum and Depression comes along with it sometimes. I never took anything for fear I would have to come off it.
A much better target than vaccines or Big Macs.
I call BS.
I doubt that they release all the evidence about what medications the shooters were taking.
If RFK Jr’s first act is NOT to address the ongoing crimes across the country regarding the covid jabs...
...then I was absolutely right to be critical of him in this role.
Look at the source. It’s Mother Jones.
My guess is that Kennedy knows whereof he speaks more than Tina.
Most school shooters means less than 50%. So lets say that there are 12 school shooters in the past 5 years. And 5 have those drugs. Others have other drugs. You could truthfully defend the statement that most school shooters are not taking the specific kind of anti-depressives. That does not at all mean that many aren’t. Or that some of the other drugs aren’t also causing school shooters.
The statement “kids taking anti-depressives are far more likely to shoot up their school over kids taking no medication” can be true even if “most school shooters are not taking this specific anti-depressive..”
No antidepressants? How will liberal women survive??
And you also have to be careful of the denominator. They often switch it up. School shooters are actually most often black and Hispanic gang members. When you take them out as they often do when saying “mass shooting”, you are left with the messed up kid on psych drugs and the kid who lost his girlfriend to a football star or teacher.
How much money does Mother Jones make from pharmaceutical advertising?
Leftist Mother Jones? As if I’m going to believe anything they have to say. SSRIs help some people, and don’t help others. Prescribing them for kids with behavior problems and depression is risky and everyone knows it. Kids with psych problems are notoriously hard to treat, especially since they are usually accompanied by acting out behavior, which is sometimes really outrageous. I know a foster parent whose FOUR Y.O foster child not only repeatedly stated he was going to kill his little brother (and his birth mother), but had actually attempted to do so. He had to be removed from foster care and placed in in-patient care. He and his siblings had been horribly abused by their parents. It’s a horrible thing when children develop psych problems.