, 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.
BS !!!
These drugs even have warnings on the label !
There is a black box warning on SSRIs stating that it may increase suicidal and homicidal ideation. Even if rare and only impacts 0.2% of people who take them, if you put a million people on them that’s still 2000 lunatics. 10 million that’s 20,000 lunatics.
The question is, how many mass shootings have anti-depressants prevented over they years? How many suicides have they prevented? Hard to know- millions upon millions of folks are on them. Many are severely depressed. And yes, some do take their own lives after going on meds- but how many wou,d have taken their own lives and/or other’s lives had they not taken any meds? Again, hard to know
There is no credible study sighted in the MJ article. Rather it’s random therapists and psychiatrists saying there is no correlation between shooters and antidepressants.
In other words a typical garbage MJ article.