FRED A.
BAUGHMAN JR., M.D.
NEUROLOGY
& CHILD NEUROLOGY (Board Certified)
Fellow, American
Academy of Neurology
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John
Rosemond 6/28/04
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Parenting
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Dear
Dr. Rosemond
Re:
“ADD diagnoses can be real tricky” San
Diego Union Tribune, 6/26/04
Dear
Dr. Rosemond,
Until
such time as an objective, physical abnormality is demonstrated in a
child/person (abnormality = disease; no abnormality = normal = no disease) that
child/person cannot be said to have a disease, any disease.
At
the November 16-18, 1998, NIH, Consensus Conference on ADHD,
Carey,
reporting on “Is ADHD a Valid Disorder?” concluded:
“What is…described as ADHD in the United States
appears to be a set of normal
behavioral variations…”
Degrandpre
[15], commenting on the Report of the Panel, observed:
“… it appears that you define disease as a
maladaptive cluster of characteristics. In the history of science and medicine,
this would not be a valid definition of disease.”
Their
having failed to prove that ADHD is a disease, they seek to re-define the word
‘disease’.
I
testified [16]:
“Without an iota of proof … the NIMH proclaims the … children “brain-diseased,”
“abnormal.” CHADD, funded by
Ciba-Geigy, … has spread the “neuro-biological” lie. The US Department of Education, absolving itself of controlling the
children and rendering them literate, coerces the labeling and drugging…ADHD is
a total, 100% fraud.”
The
final statement of Panel [17], November 18, 1998, was:
“
…we do not have an independent, valid test for ADHD, and there are no
data to indicate that ADHD is due to a brain malfunction.”
Nor
has their been replicated proof since then
that ADHD is an abnormality/disease..
In the risk vs. benefit equation in so-called ADHD, there is never an
abnormality disease on the “risk” side (where in medicine and surgery there is
always an abnormality/disease). This
being the case, the diagnosis of ADD/ADHD is not difficult or tricky but is
never possible. What’s more the
training of all physicians is such that they know when they have
demonstrated/proved the presence of an abnormality and when they have not.
The
representation of ADD/ADHD (or any predecessor) to be a disease/chemical
imbalance needing chemical balancers/drug, which began in a Congressional
hearing in 1970 and continues to the present, is a fraud perpetrated by US
psychiatry, all “mental health,” the Congress and the White House.
In
May, 2003, Carey testified to the House that 17% of US schoolchildren (8-9
million) were on psychiatric drugs, and now, President Bush claiming this
represents underdiagnosis, seeks comprehensive screening throughout the public
schools of the nation for all psychiatric “disorders” none of them diseases—not
one.
Sincerely,
Fred
A. Baughman Jr., MD