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"Grossly misrepresenting"? Let's take a look at this CDC graphic ('ADHD https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/documents/Timeline.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/
by photochemsyn 4y ago
"Grossly misrepresenting"? Let's take a look at this CDC graphic ('ADHD
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/documents/Timeline.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/documents/Timeline.pdf
Digging through those references seems to point to a very low level of ADHD diagnoses and treatment in the 1970s relative to the 1990s, for example. Was there a massive undiagnosed disorder among American children in the 1970s?
Notably, the CDC only starts tracking ADHD diagnoses starting in 1997!
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/timeline.html https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/timeline.html
What does that curve look like if you extend in back to 1967, which is apparently when the NIH began funding US academic studies on the behavioral effects of treating children with amphetamines?
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoHow do you expect people to have a serious discussion with you when you consistently ignore their rebuttals to your misrepresentations?
- photochemsyn 4y agoI'd remind you that this is a Philip K Dick thread. What do you think PKD would make of a program that delivers mass quantities of amphetamines and amphetamine derivatives to children in the name of helping them control their classroom behavior, really?