“Fraudulent” Disorders
In addition to not listening to their patients, many psychiatrists have also evidently chosen not to listen to clinical studies and medical texts which contradict “conventional wisdom” in child psychiatry.
Fred A. Baughman Jr., M.D., a board certified neurologist and child neurologist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, said that the problem originates within the psychiatric industry itself.
In an interview with Freedom, Baughman charged that “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” (ADHD), “Oppositional Defiant Disorder” (ODD), “Conduct Disorder” (CD) — the three psychiatric diagnoses that allegedly are biological precursors to aggressive and violent behavior — are uniformly fraudulent.
“Not one of the ‘disruptive behavior disorders’ has been validated as a disease, or as anything biological or organic,” he said.
Baughman noted that the Report of the National Institutes of Health’s Consensus Conference on ADHD, November 16 – 18, 1998, confessed that ADHD does not exist: “[W]e do not have an independent, valid test for ADHD, and there are no data to indicate that ADHD is due to brain malfunction.”
Likewise, Baughman pointed out, there is no valid test for ODD or CD — despite the fact that psychiatrists across the country have labeled millions of children with one or more of the three fictitious “disruptive behavior disorders” and have prescribed them destructive, mind-bending drugs.
Each of these “diseases,” Baughman and other experts have charged, is a fraud, and any diagnosis that results in a child being given dangerous drugs is not only fraudulent, but criminal.
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