CONSENSUS CONFERENCE TO CONSENSUS STATEMENT WITH NEVER A
By Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD, Neurology/Child Neurology
February 8, 2002
Attention Deficit Disorder—ADD, was contrived, in-committee
But all the way to the bank, the ADHD “experts” and
Lets jump to 1998.
On April 15, 1998,
“The biggest health care fraud in US history is
In CHADD’S Spring, 1998, Attention magazine announcement of the upcoming, Consensus
…AD/HD has
In a rebuttal to CHADD and the supposedly independent,
No, Dr. Jensen, a consensus
And now they give us yet another Consensus Statement—this
Further, the majority of the signatories to the January,
It can only be concluded that the current, January, 2002
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NIH, AD/HD CONSENSUS
by Fred A. Baughman
[submitted to
In his guest column*
It has always been thus, with ADHD. Such need not be the case. The headline of
“Doctors say huge numbers of kids
As through the entire existence of ADHD (by whatever name)
“Where in the peer-reviewed
They have steadfastly refused to answer this question while
Having failed , in his letter to me of October 21, 1997, to provide me with
“note within the pages of the prestigious British journal
Dr. Swanson, also a
Attending the March
I spoke from the audience, pointing out that no less than
Here, we had strong, replicated evidence that chronic
Next came a rare moment of candor and a forthright answer to
Swanson (from the
“I would like to have an objective
I spoke again from the audience (tape):
“I salute you candor. There is no way of confirming ADHD as a
Swanson (tape):
“That’s why we are doing this work. I think we will validate it. I do
“I think we will validate it,” he said. At long last–an honest, open, truly
CHADD estimates that 10-20 percent of schoolchildren–5.2 to 10.4 million, have it. Most with ADHD are on Schedule II,
The Nuremberg Code
No, Dr. Jensen, a consensus conference will not suffice, and
References
1. Doctors
2. Swanson
3. Castellanos FX, Giedd JN, March WL, et
4. Filipek
5. Goldman
* In ATTENTION!, the magazine published quarterly by CHADD,
PS It would be helpful in reading Dr. Jensen’s
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