THE APA LIES, PERJURES ITSELF, IS GUILTY OF CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS

Fred Baughman, MD, Sun. 11/24/02

In 2000. Steven Miran, MD, Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association, testified to the US House of Representatives (House Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations" April 5, 2000.): "scientific research over the last two decades has shown that severe mental illness and addictive disorders are...diseases of the brain with a strong genetic and biological basis." On September 29, 2000, I testified to the House of Representatives, Committee on Education and the Workforce, hearing entitled "Behavioral Drugs in Schools: Questions and Concerns," that it would for any physician to say that any psychiatric diagnosis or condition is a disease, would be fraud.

It occurs to me now that every psychiatrist and other kind of physician, and every mental health advocacy group (NAMI and CHADD in particular) who has testified regarding mental health before the US Congress and before State Governments have, in fact, testified that all such psychiatric entities (in the DSM) are diseases; brain diseases, genetic diseases, due to "chemical imbalances" of the brain, when none of them are--not a single one. There is not one in which a gross, microscopic or chemical abnormality has been or can be demonstrated, and this is what makes their, and Miran's (the APA's) claim of disease fraudulent. And this of course is what the public and all who currently are patients are told. Consider this as well:

In the November 20, 2001, Family Circle magazine, the psycho-pharmaceutical cartel has a 7-page "special advertising supplement" in which its leaders, including the Richard K. Harding, President of the American Psychiatric Assn. and Surgeon General, David Satcher, cast aside the term "disorders" and forthrightly proclaim that they diagnose and treat "diseases"-brain diseases. So saying they lie to all Americans and trample their right to informed consent and self-determination. Would not saying this to the Congress be perjury--contempt of Congress. Did not David Satcher in his term as Surgeon General, thus perjure himself before the Congress? One would just have to go back through Congressional hearings having to do with mental health to compile a list of the perjurors. CHADD has been at every state legislature hearing on ADHD/Ritalin that I have been at and have given the "disease" lie as their sworn testimony.

Novartis, manufacturer, not just of Ritalin, wrote to a committee of the Wisconsin legislature to whom I had testified, rebutting my assertion that ADHD was not a bona fide disease, insisting, though unsworn, that it was.

All physicians are trained in pathology--diseases, and to know what the difference is between disease and no disease and all physicians remain responsible throughout their careers for this very distinction. This make Miran's and Harding's and other physician's claims that psychiatric conditions are diseases, a lie, perjury, fraud or even contempt of Congress.