“The diagnosis of ADD is entirely subjective...  There is no test.   It is just down to interpretation.  Maybe a child blurts out in class or doesn’t sit still.  The lines between an ADD sufferer and a healthy exuberant kid can be very blurred.”  [emphasis added] Dr. Joe Kosterich, chairman of the federal Austrailian Medical Association "For a disease to exist there must be a tangible, objective physical abnormality that can be determined by a test such as, but not limited to, blood or urine test, X-Ray, brain scan or biopsy.  All reputable doctors agree:  No physical abnormality, no disease.  In psychiatry, no test or brain scan exists to prove that a 'mental disorder' is a physical disease.  Disingenuous comparisons between physical and mental illness and medicine are simply part of psychiatry's orchestrated but fraudulent public relations and marketing campaign."  [emphasis added] Dr. Fred Baughman, Jr., Neurologist "In that ADHD is not a disease with a known abnormality there is no rationale, no scientific basis, for giving that drug, only a risk of physical damage, injury." [emphasis added] Dr. Fred Baughman, Jr., Neurologist Referring to psychiatry, Baughman says: "They made a list of the most common symptoms of emotional discomfiture of children; those which bother teachers and parents most, and in a stroke that could not be more devoid of science or Hippocratic motive--termed them a 'disease.'  Twenty five years of research, not deserving of the term 'research.,' has failed to validate ADD/ADHD as a disease.  Tragically--the "epidemic" having grown from 500 thousand in 1985 to between 5 and 7 million today--this remains the state of the 'science' of ADHD."  [emphasis added] Dr. Fred Baughman, Jr., Neurologist

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