By Jon Rappoport | Jon Rappoports Blog
This one is big.
Dr. Ronald Pies, the editor-in-chief emeritus of the Psychiatric Times, laid the theory to rest in the July 11, 2011, issue of the Times with this staggering admission:
In truth, the chemical imbalance notion was always a kind of urban legend never a theory seriously propounded by well-informed psychiatrists.
Boom.
Dead.
The point is, for decades the whole basis of psychiatric drug research, drug prescription, and drug sales has been: were correcting a chemical imbalance in the brain.
The problem was, researchers had never established a normal baseline for chemical balance. So they were shooting in the dark. Worse, they were faking a theory. Pretending they knew something when they didnt.
In his 2011 piece in Psychiatric Times, Dr. Pies tries to cover his colleagues in the psychiatric profession with this fatuous remark:
In the past 30 years, I dont believe I have ever heard a knowledgeable, well-trained psychiatrist make such a preposterous claim [about chemical imbalance in the brain], except perhaps to mock itthe chemical imbalance image has been vigorously promoted by some pharmaceutical companies, often to the detriment of our patients understanding.
Absurd. First of all, many psychiatrists have explained and do explain to their patients that the drugs are there to correct a chemical imbalance.
And second, if all well-trained psychiatrists have known, all along, that the chemical-imbalance theory is a fraud
then why on earth have they been prescribing tons of drugs to their patients
since those drugs are developed on the false premise that they correct an imbalance?
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