To: mugs99
LOL! The "disease du jour" is always popular at teaching hospitals! And your background in medical research (particularly at the Harvard level) allows you to make such a statement because.....
To: Gay State Conservative
And your background in medical research (particularly at the Harvard level) allows you to make such a statement because.....
LOL!
In other words...If Harvard participates in junk science that's ok...It can't be questioned by anyone who hasn't conducted "Harvard level" junk research!
Let's take a look at this "research".
There is no definitive objective set of criteria to determine who has ADD/ADHD and who does not.
One of the tests used to determine if a child has ADD/ADHD is artificially objective...a child is asked to press a button every time he sees a 1 followed by a 9 on a computer screen.
Another is subjective...parents and teachers score a childs behavior on a scale from 1 to 5. These scores depend on the opinion of the teacher or parent.
This is not science. This is quackery!
I don't need "harvard level" research experience to know that before the end of the year deadly hospital infections, those contracted by otherwise healthy individuals while hospitalized for even routine procedures, will claim over 100,000 lives. As the fourth largest killer of Americans, these hospital infections kill more people each year than AIDS, breast cancer, and traffic accidents combined.
I think Harvard needs to clean up their own hospitals before claiming the research high ground.
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07/11/2006 5:20:29 PM PDT by
mugs99
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