Posted on 10/05/2018 7:13:19 PM PDT by LevonRiver
The next question is: “Why?”
Correlation does not equal causation.
A more accurate connection would be that at that time, prayer was eliminated from schools.
Why no evidence cited, beyond time frames, of a connection between SSRI’s and violence? Because there is none?
Before we had ‘Science’, we had ‘Common Sense’. It seems to have stood us well in many respects for centuries, and sometimes a correlation that is recognized actually DOES intimate a cause.
There may be a lot of influences contributing to the individual propensity for violence. But I’m personally not convinced that we really know enough yet to be playing around with brain chemistry in the ways that we have been doing.
A great many factors in society changed from the 1960s onward, including the breakdown of family and social institutions, as well as the introduction of the hula hoop.
I’m not sure why its obvious that anti-depressant drugs are the factor responsible for mass killings.
Because the “study” is from a conspiracy website and my guess is that the one who posted the article has a connection with it.
However, I would not describe it so simply and harmless (relatively speaking)
With the huge increase in the number of people using SSRI's, that very small percentage starts to become a large number of people...
unnatural supplements cannot do the same as natural. God created plenty of natural ways to deal with depression and axiety etc but Rx and doctors keep wanting to think they know better (no need for God) and they hurt many people in the process of their selling their stupidity to public.
I was under the impression that 100% — or close to 100% — of the school shooters of the late '90s and after had been on SSRIs or were "tapering off" them; at least, that's what I read here, and elsewhere.
I don't know if that's actually true, and our side is susceptible to "advocacy research" as much as is the other side, unfortunately.
The increase in rampage killings also began right after the Red Skelton Show went off the air. Coincidence? I think NOT!
True but it is a reason to explore further.
It should be looked in to how many of these Rampage Killers were under a doctors care and if it can be discovered were they on anti-depressants.
Obvious the increase in killings correlates with number of moslems invading this nation.
This has been theorized for years here at FR.
They filtered out terrorism in the study along with various other multiple type killing that would be unrelated to drugs such as workplace and family killing.
There was a huge uproar in the 80s and 90s over kids being given Ritalin and other drugs to “moderate” their behavior. A lot of media stories wondering what these kids might be like later in life.
Looks like some of them were worth the concern back then.
MK Ultra even got a mention!
“Just leave the switch “ON”.
Ok, let’s put together a list, a long, long, long list, of all the things that began or ended, or increased or decreased in the same time frame. It would go into the hundreds, if not thousands. You’ve GOT to show that a very significant number of these perps were on the drugs you cite. Without that, you have garbage. Don’t we teach people how to think straight anymore? This is foolishness.
Destruction of the nuclear family and the removal of strong male role models by an ever-increasing gynocentric feminist agenda.
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