Current Affairs Editor Attacks Candace Owens and Claims Decay of the American Brain
Republished with permission from AbleChild.
This week’s Current Affairs magazine features an article about Conservative podcaster Candace Owens, who author Nathan J. Robinson suggests is so out of her mind and is “on another level entirely,” and that “many of her proclamations are so bizarre, they seem better described as “symptoms” than ideas.”
Robinson has a PhD in sociology from Harvard and a JD from Yale Law School, so he at least gets credit for being a dedicated student. But the article reads like a purposeful hit piece rather than a considerate discussion of any fact busting on Robinson’s part. Actually, the entire piece is one big whine. That’s right, Robinson, who wrote the book Why You Should Be a Socialist, and is the Editor-in-Chief of Current Affairs, wastes about 3,000 words whining to readers about what he thinks is crazy about Owens but, oddly enough, does not provide any proof – no factual data – that what Owen’s believes is incorrect.
But Robinson gives away his real intent in the article’s subtitle when he writes “What does it say about us that Owens is listened to by anyone other than a psychiatrist?” It’s not funny but it is interesting that Robinson would use psychiatry as something that is connected to Owens and those who listen to the podcast and opinions of the podcaster. Afterall, Robinson surely is aware that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM) is not based in science, and many would argue that singular book has done incalculable harm.
So, let’s consider for a moment the fact that one in four American adults take at least one prescription psychiatric drug just to be able to function. The fact that millions of American adults cannot function without mind-altering drugs isn’t funny, but it is important to discuss the fraud of the psychiatric diagnosis that was necessary to get the drugs.
That’s right. The modern mental health model of diagnose and drug has finally been outed for its utter and complete failure. The fact is, nobody is getting better, they’re just getting more drugged. And while Robinson thinks writing the “psychiatrist” thing is funny, what Robinson fails to understand is psychiatric diagnosing is a fraud. There is no known abnormality for any psychiatric diagnosis. Rather, mental health disorders are made up lists of behaviors that the great and near great in psychiatry long ago voted in as abnormalities with a raised hand that needed to be “treated.”
For example, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) isn’t a disorder. There is no abnormality in the brain that is ADHD. It is, however, made up symptoms like “fails to give close attention to details, makes careless mistakes, doesn’t listen when spoken to directly, doesn’t follow tasks…” What five-year-old boy doesn’t exhibit these tendencies? It’s normal…not abnormal. However, because the APA deemed these behaviors, and others, abnormal, the “treatment” too often is serious mind-altering drugs like Ritalin and Adderall.
Ritalin and Adderall are stimulants (Methylphenidate and Amphetamine) and are considered by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to have a high potential for abuse and addiction and are classified as Schedule II controlled substances.
And while Robinson still thinks the “psychiatrist” schtick is funny, the psychiatry thing gets worse the more you know. For example, not only is there no abnormality for ADHD or any psychiatric disorder, the pharmaceutical companies that produce the drug “treatments” have no idea how the drugs work in the brain for any psychiatric diagnosis, including the alleged ADHD.
According to the package insert for Ritalin, “the mode of action in man is not completely understood, but Ritalin presumably activates…” blah, blah, blah. Clueless. “Not completely understood?” “Presumably?” Doesn’t sound good. Yet, millions of Americans have been prescribed Ritalin and other ADHD “treatment” that the makers, after decades of research, still have no idea how the drugs “work” as “treatment.”
What we do know, is that methylphenidate is the closest thing we have to cocaine and according to IQVia (formerly IMS Health) as of 2020 more than nine and a half million prescriptions were written for ADHD drugs in the US and nearly three million of them were prescribed to kids under the age of 17. Most disturbing was that more than 300 of those prescriptions were written for children less than one year old.
But Robinson continues with the crazy schtick when he writes “how can someone so delusional attract an audience of millions, and what does it say about our country.” “Delusional?” Robinson has written often in support of trans rights issues and, while Able Child does not advocate either way on the issue, the argument has been made that thinking and believing that one is the opposite sex than what is identified at birth could be called “delusional.” Couldn’t Robinson’s question “how can someone so delusional attract an audience of millions, and what does it say about our country” just as easily be applied to his support of the trans community?
AbleChild has, however, spent a great deal of time investigating the Sandy Hook shooting and will respond to Robinson’s remarks that “she’s (Owens) basically occupying the same lane as Alex Jones, who has been sued into financial oblivion by the grieving Sandy Hook families he defamed.” Yes, the radio host was sued by the Sandy Hook families who won in what many argue was a biased court.
Nevertheless, rather than defend Jones, AbleChild would suggest that Robinson take the time to read the very lengthy investigation of Sandy Hook. He may find it of interest, and of which no news organizations speak, that none of the more than 150 projectiles recovered from the shooting could be matched to the alleged weapon. That’s important physical evidence that no one bothers to discuss…even the family members. So, before Robinson and others decide to use Jones as their whipping boy of false information, one might suggest that they take the time to read the investigations. There is a wealth of information that goes beyond just reading the summary.
Of course, at the end of the day, what is important is that Robinson should be careful about suggesting people are crazy because they believe something others may not. After all it was Charlie Kirk who said, “you should be allowed to say outrageous things.” Time will tell who is right. But, in the meantime, Robinson might want to think about how crazy it is to give psychiatry credibility when there is no abnormality for any mental disorder. As Charlie would say…”prove me wrong.”
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