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Can Ritalin Really improve humankind?


Forget the Swine Flu pandemic, it will not happen or by the time you read this it may be more appropriate to say 'It did not happen' The obsession of control freak governments and greedy corporation with spoonfeeding the enire population drugs and vaccines grows. We now hear people are persuaded to give healthy kids Ritalin to improve their academic performance"

Can Ritalin really improve humankind?.
by Ed Butt
19 June 2009

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News that the children of the meritocracy are taking ADHD drug Ritalin in the belief it will enhance their concentration and improve cognitive skills thus making them more competitive in the careers market. Not only is that tragically sad, there are a lot of question marks over the drug's efficacy and alleged side effects.

One of the reasons the world is in the state it is and very probably one of the driving forces behind the stress related illnesses that are at epidemic levels in the developed nations is the obsession particularly among the University educated "elite" with success and the measurable tokens of success. And now people are so despoerate they are taking drugs that have been associated with very negative side effects to give themselves an edge in the rat race.

This explains the huge market for self help books, the vast amount of money ordinarily talented but extraordinarily desperate people will pay to enrol of courses or programmes run by so called self help gurus, the inclination of educated middle class people to respond like Pavlov's Dogs to trigger words the obsession with success and status, the willingness to buy and consume prescription drugs illegally on the basis of what they have heard in a con man's sales pitch.

For anyone who knows little of Ritalin it has been associated with several high profile suicides. The Church of Scienceology trot out, the people who place science on a pedestal alongside religious belief complain of course that allegations of Ritalin's armful effects are unscientific. They will trot out report after report, peer reviewed academic paper after peer reviewed academic paper in support of their case that there is no scientific link between these suicides and the drug. The problem with life though is it stubbornly insists on being unscientific.

Forget the peer reviewed academic papers and placebo controlled dounble blind scientific studies. All thse do is provide a weak case for the health science industry to brush off the cases where serious harm occurs as pure conincidence as they do in the case of the MMR vaccine or the HPV vaccine, as they did until they had ben proved wrong, dishonest and mendacious in the cases of prozac, thalidomide, vallium and many other drugs that have done harm to a small proportion of people who use them.

We should be discouraging people from using Ritalin to try to advance their careers. We should be discouraging doctors from prescribing drugs to people for whom they are not appropriated. Instead the drug companies are incentiveising doctors to prescribe and making their drugs available to internet merchants who evade national controls.

It is just another money making project for big pharma.

And the sixty four thousand dollar question, does ritalin work? Two words; Kurt Fucking Corbain.

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