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Well I thought my last post on PTSD (see “DSM V Team Strikes Back Against PTSD Establishment on PTSD“) might at least flush out who the mystery woman psychiatrist is from the Sex and Seroquel scandal (it didn’t) but it did provoke a reaction from David Dobbs, the author of the Time magazine article (The PTSD Trap”) that I took on as peddling pseudo-contrarian views. My beef was not with David, whose Neuron Culture blog makes for good reading, but with psychiatrists such as Paul McHugh MD who give lectures saying that childhood abuse memories are implanted by therapists based on nothing more than his opinion, or by others making sweeping statements implying that PTSD is somehow problematic.
I guess David got upset that I called him retarded (actually I said his comment implying that the VA wanted to increase the ranks of the PTSD disabled was retarded, not him) and he took issue with my saying I am not part of the establishment (hey I am not on DSM committee and never get awards and stuff like that, unlike some of my more druggy friends). He and other bloggers on scienceblogs took issue with my picking on their friend, with Neuroskeptic blogger criticizing me for calling professors pointy headed (hey I have an old car and Rush Limbaugh is the only channel I get) and Orac from the blog “Respectual Insolence” (cool! I didn’t know he read my blog!) said I was getting on his nerves and he was going to pick a fight with me about cancer screening tests being more or less useless (Gasp! I slap you with my glove Sir!). Well since he is a cancer guy I guess it is always hard to get a criticism of what is your bottom line.
Come on! I'll fightcha with one hand behind my back!
But hey this is a blog for Christ’s sake and that post set a new record for readers so I guess people at least didn’t think it was boring.
Now it looks like David is going to make me the subject of a journalism symposium (yeah! I love attention!) and with these successive volleys the Good Ship Pilleous is now sailing into battle in the PTSD Wars!
Tally ho and onward buckaroos!
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Dobbs’ article was in Scientific American, not Time, wasn’t it? Hope you come to a meeting of the minds at some point!
Oh, Scientific American, that’s right. Got him mixed up with the other one.
For the record, Doug — if I may paraphrase Jon Stewart paraphrasing Carly Simon — my talk at NYU was not about you.
I stand by my comment about the phrase “pointy-headed professors”. I further demand that you publish photos of your head from all possible angles so that we can see how pointy yours is, Professor Bremner!
X-Rays or MRIs would also do.
Ha ha ha! Very funny, neuroskeptic. I have often said that many professors have a point in their arguments, albeit on top of their heads!
Doug Bremner is laughing at the guy he sees in the mirror with a lampshade on his head. Nothing about the American health care system is funny to anyone with any knowledge of it. Bremner is a convincing drunk, by midnight a lampshade is a perfect tribute to his sense of humor and seats perfectly on his flattop. What a card!
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