establishment psycho-bunk 2 Ritalin and
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Sweeping inadequate
child-rearing under the carpet by doping the young. Making up fancy names for poor child discipline, and then pretending it is a 'medical' matter. |
establishment psycho-bunk 1—‘lie detection’ | establishment psycho-bunk is a sub-set of documents, within this document set. This document set shows how to apply empiric reasoning to social and psychological problems.. | ||||||
establishment psycho-bunk 2 - Ritalin and junk science | Intelligence: misuse and abuse of statistics | drugs, smoking and addiction | |||||
establishment psycho-bunk 3 —dyslexia | establishment psycho-bunk | cause, chance and Bayesian statistics | |||||
establishment psycho-bunk 4 —the myth of repressed memory | misuse and corruption in science | ||||||
psycho-bunk 5 —what is memory, or intelligence? Incautious claims of ‘IQ’ genes | For related
empiric reasoning documents, start with Why Aristotelian logic does not work |
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psycho-bunk 6—‘traumatic’ ‘syndromes’ or ‘curing’ P.E.S.Ts | psycho-bunk 8—Sexual differences in childhood behaviour - socialist science: the result first, the study after | ||||||
establishment psycho-bunk 7 aspergers and autism | psychobunk 9—Dyspraxia |
Just to make it sound more portentous and even more scientific:
I real like that clear evidence and clinically significant bit. That’ll really impress the customers......ab
If this personality profile does not appeal, we have plenty more. Ritalin is an upper, a stimulant. Uppers are known to increase intelligence/performance over the short term. Other uppers are caaffeine, amphetamine and cocaine. This
report and here is the same report on a US
government site. and here is another
version: In some school districts, one in five boys take the stimulant. Children with ('the disorder') are often described as less mature than
their peers and this may relate to delays in white matter maturation,
Castellanos said. The
American Academy of Pediatrics estimates 4 percent to 12 percent of school-age
children are affected. Brain
size is correlated with intelligence. If it were another upper like cocaine, then the dispensers of this nostrum would be called pushers and the users would be called addicts. If it was coffee, it would be called a pick-me-up and cost a lot less at the local market. Of course, coffee is out of patent protection. It matters not what you do in this society, only the language that you use. |
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Meanwhile, the American corporations are targetting 8 million adults!
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