The team at the Institute of Psychiatry found the rate of schizophrenia in non-white ethnic minorities was highest in those areas where this group comprised a small proportion of the population and lowest where they made up a large population.
This fact is followed immediately by social theory to explain it:
The research suggests for the first time that social factors have a major effect on people from ethnic minority groups with a medical predisposition to mental illness.
The "researchers" present absolutely no evidence to support that suggestion, or their theory!
Political agendas rear their ugly heads under any circumstances, and biomedical researchers and publications are actually pretty bad on that account.
PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting MedicineC-Span Booknotes interview with Doctor Satel:
by Sally SatelDrawing on a wealth of information, much of it never before revealed, PC, M.D. documents for the first time what happens when the tenets of political correctness-including victimology, multiculturalism, and the rejection of fixed truths and individual autonomy-are allowed to enter the fortress of medicine. Consider these examples:
1. A professor at the Harvard School of Public Health teaches her students that racial discrimination causes high blood pressure among blacks-an unsubstantiated and dangerous "truth"
2. Nationwide, consumer-survivors preach against involuntary commitment of the severely mentally ill, arguing for their "right" not to be treated
3. Baltimore's Commissioner of Health proposes distributing heroin to addicts, claiming they are too oppressed to help themselves
The consequences of putting politics before health are far-reaching, argues Sally Satel. Patients are the ultimate victims of these disturbing trends. Meanwhile, PC medicine diverts taxpayer money that could be better spent delivering health care, providing proven therapies, and rigorously investigating new ones. PC, M.D. is a powerful wake-up call to the medical profession and to patients. —from the publisher's website
". . . it's a very, very pernicious--there are three basic tenets to multicultural counseling. And I must say, this is not done with people who are wildly psychotic. It's done with people who have problems living, difficulty adjusting, minor depression or anxiety.But the three tenets of multicultural therapy are, first, that the thera--that the therapist, the counselor, assumes that the most important aspect of a patient's psychological landscape is her or her membership in an oppressed group--assumes that.
The second is that whatever distress this patient is suffering from is inevitably due to his or her bumping up against racism, sexism or some sort of oppressive force.
And thirdly, that for the patient to get better, he or she will have to engage in some sort of social activism, which only makes sense, of course, if you believe that it's the environment that's--that's largely responsible for your psychic distress, then that's got to be the--that's got to be the thing that--that you seek to change.
Now when you think about it, this is the antithesis of therapy. Therapy should be about self-observation. It should be about taking responsibility for choices. . .
What I talk about in my book is really an effort to--well, the book is--is really an expose of--of what I call political correctness in medicine, the--the idea that disease and even behavioral dysfunction are primarily caused by social injustice and that doctors and especially public health professionals should take on social justice as a mission. I reject that. . .
Full interview HERE
Absolutely, theirs is a cavalier jump to conclusion, when we know statistics never figured in any law.