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NB: Please keep .. more Letters to the Editor *sisgisr« Letters to the Editor more done in Trenergy's laboratories, | abused their positions in society | need to accept responsibility, but | it's not because they are bad for us. can be fabricated that is analytical- | (though this trend is mainly hap- | the people are being conned by the | People, especially the young, will ly up to one million times more | pening in the US). The author is | very transnational conglomerates | always find a way to get out of it. effective in terms of proton densi- | pointing her finger at the wrong | which would cause economic col All you can do as a parent is to ty on target than any of the exist- | target. The problems regarding | lapse if they switched to "free | educate them and not to alienate ing particle accelerators. the "DSM", ECT, drugs, ADD, | energy". them if they do stray. Also, you In my judgement, the develop- | etc. are all largely related to bad | Secondly, as for "waiting for | need to accept the fact that it is not ment of this new technology | psychiatry (not most of psycholo- | aliens", I suggest you actually | the person on the street who is to would allow for the on-site trans- | gy) and the "biomedical" model of | read the article. Nowhere therein| blame for his addiction, but the mutation of high-level radioactive | health. Under this model, medi- | does it suggest we should 'wait'; | person beside him who allowed it wastes into stable elements. | cine relies solely on “hard science" | on the contrary, the ‘aliens'| to happen. All drugs need to be Billions of dollars can be saved by | (such as the logic of treating can- encourage and advocate our tak + legalised so that we can deal with not packaging, transporting and | cer with radioactive poisons), and | ing responsibility for our planet. | the problem openly, honestly and storing these wastes in geological | ignores alternative therapy. | Ed] finally. storage for 10,000 years. Funnily enough, all of the treat- Now, I don't sell drugs; I'm not a Best personal regards, ments these people advocate are : igi junkie: I don't even smoke jot. In FE Ean pournal of New ed Poatical ‘is r)). mpiesthe Oe Ducan Thank you all fact Tm doing 20 years for killing . ? armaceutical industry). : ; ° Energy, halfox @slkc.uswest.net P y. the wonderful work you put into | @ drug grower. There is t i in attacki os . (by wencralisation) psychology on NEXUS Magazine. This is the So I now find myself in a system Unfair Slur on Psychology ___ | the grounds it has no scientific only magazine I have ever sub- which makes relatively good peo- Dear NEXUS: I am responding | phasis when the real problem is scribed to on a regular basis. I | ple bad and bad people worse—a to your article "Psychiatry: connected to that hard science so | find all your articles interesting | System which promotes ignorance Shrinking from the Truth" [7/01], | revered by the article. and thought provoking. and apathy. _ ; which was quite unbalanced. I Ben Fletcher, b f, subktx@ Recently I purchased Laurence We criminals are not victims of could not respond to all the arti- | waccapenet Gardner's book, Bloodline of the | society, we are a product of soci- cle's flaws in such a small space, scape Holy Grail, as a result of reading | ety. We, like everyone else, are so I'll be brief. . the articles and letters to the editor | the product of everyone we ever Firstly, some fair points have ETs and Our Environment in NEXUS, and, boy, what a | came into contact with: parents, been made regarding psychiatrists, | To the Editor: I admit to enjoy- | mind-spin! I must say that | teachers, friends, strangers, TV, shock treatment, drugs and psy- | ing reading articles about UFOs | Laurence's book is a real eye- | etc. I have not yet met a person in choanalysis. It is a shame that | and alien contact, but I do believe | opener. Who could ever have | prison who, given the right guid- some members of the mental | that there is a very dangerous mes- | believed the extent of the treach- | ance, could not have taken a com- health community, either by being | sage contained within the article, | ery and deceit that has been foist | pletely different path. greedy or overzealous, actually | "Meetings with Remarkable | upon the unsuspecting general So, ask yourself what you have cause more harm than good. Aliens" (Feb-Mar 2000, 7/02). | public of the ages? done to help and guide those However, the actions of these | The danger lies in the myth that | Whilst reading Laurence's book, | around you. Judging and directing people does not allow for a blan- | anyone in government or private | | experienced feelings of anger, | blame is easy. It's about time et generalisation being drawn | enterprise has access to some form | resentment and despair towards | communities took an active, posi- that suggests all psychologists and | of remarkable technology that is | the so-called leaders and represen- | tive interest in the "rehabilitation" psychiatrists are bad. . going to stop humankind's destruc- | tatives of our various govern- | of inmates in "correctional" cen- I'll remind you that many fields | tion of the environment. ments, but also feelings of relief, | tres, rather than bitch about and of "science", such as the much- Rather than hoping for some | elation and intense joy that some- | turn your backs on them, on us, on revered chemistry, have been | new technology, humankind needs | one has finally helped me to make | me. affected by corruption in our time: | to take/accept responsibility for | sense of all the little quirks of his- Monsanto, nuclear power, | the environmental crisis and | tory, religion and the Bible that I genetics—need I go on? Is this a | change its own behaviour, attitude | queried as a teenager. Thanks to good enough reason to ban all | and morality towards the natural | | aurence Gardner, I now under- chemistry? environment. We choose a violent | stand why, as a young boy, I could Many treatments used by psy- | path of destruction of nature. We | not stand to walk into an Anglican chologists (such as cognitive | have the free will to choose a dif- | 9¢ Roman Catholic church. behaviour therapy) have been | ferent path. They say there is no religion shown countless times, in thou- | Expecting new technology to | greater than the truth, and they are sands of journals, to be quite | solve the environmental crisis is a right. Thank you so much. effective in treating a range of | dangerous excuse for continuing problems. The research in the | on the same path of material satia- article had methodological flaws | tion and environmental destruc- I'm doing 20 years for killing another criminal and I probably deserve every day of it; however, eventually I will be back in soci- ety, perhaps even in your commu- nity. How would you like me back: educated and self-confident, or ignorant and resentful? Mary Shelley once wrote: "No man chooses evil because it is Regards, evil; he only mistakes it for happi- Dave Dennis, daviddennis@ | ness, the good he seeks." of its own. tion. Waiting for aliens to reveal one.net.au May Peace and Love be with The article focused (convenient- | this new technology is a similar ; you, ly) on treatments that no reason- | form of procrastination. Products of Society Johno, Parklea, New South able psychologist would use these | Geoff Lamberton, glambert@ | Dear Duncan: Thank you for | Wales, Australia days. I couldn't find one | scu.edu.au your insightful magazine. Idon't| PS: I gladly fork out $4.95 for doctor/lecturer/professor at my | [Dear Geoff: Firstly, the tech -| wish to turn this section into a | each copy of NEXUS. university who would agree with | nology exists to run cars on water; | gossip column, but I really must : Thank you for your per- the practices listed as "exalted". to have free, unlimited electricity; | reply to Chris [Letters, 7/02]. ssion-to-reproduce policy. It I agree wholeheartedly that, | and to eliminate polluting energy | We need to be realistic. We all| allows me to copy and pass on sadly, many psychiatrists have | sources totally. I agree that we | know why drugs are illegal—and | articles to others. APRIL — MAY 2000 NEXUS <5