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[Al B.]

Once a dosage amount is established, researchers will spend five weeks alternating amounts and sometimes giving placebo sugar pills to see how the kids react.  Parents and teachers who record the reaction won't be told about the dosage change.

Fake classrooms with two-way mirrors will be set up to study the kids like lab rats when researchers wean them off Ritalin. The "child's behavior could get worse," the protocol states.

Notwithstanding the ethical problems associated with this study, any study like this that does not clearly differentiate between the well-known behavioral rebound effects of drugs like Ritalin and the child's underlying behavior problem is a sham.

Do ya think we'll see this kind of differentiation?  Sure we will.  Not.