Posted by Cam W. on April 30, 2000, at 11:27:18
In reply to Re: Cam W., posted by JohnL on April 30, 2000, at 3:32:44
John - I definitely will buy and read Jensen's book later this summer. The psychiatrists in town have found me and I being pulled in many different directions right now. (thanks docs, but I really don't want the noteriety, I just want to play my own game) Any Alexander the Greats out there need an Aristotle? ;^) (oh yeah, I have a big ego as well)I still would have liked Jensen to have held his theories up to the scrutiny of fair people like Nancy Andreasen and Stephen Stahl and their people. I would like to hear their imput before recommending "scientifically" unproven theories. Especially when he is profitting off of it.
The "money for science" thing came as a personal jab at my boss. I found out what he gets paid for me and what I am getting paid. Yesterday I had to negotiate a subscription to J Clin Psychiatry by substracting it from my yearly bonus (2 CDs a month from Grateful Dead Merchandizing + a GD calendar + one tie-dye t-shirt - tax free - cool, huh). The journal cost me 6 CDs (sigh). Also, my fence fell down this winter ($1100), my 18yr. daughter burnt the engine out of my old clunker ($5200 to replace) and we had already shelled out mucho dinero to go to Disney World in June ($~1800 CDN, with discount card, just to get in the gate for 3 adults and 1 child for 7 days). Let's just say that for profit health care is pissing me off right about now.
Enough ranting. Thanks John for the wealth of information you have supplied. If it weren't for people like you, us extreme skeptics would still be walking a heliocentric, flat world.
Sincerely, your pal in medical advance - Cam W.
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