I'm not aware of Baughman being connected to scientology, though he is often
mentioned in this light to discredit his views (much like Breggin and anyone
remotely critical of medicaton).
I do agree that scientology is exploitive. The "money sucking enterprise" argument,
however, seems most applicable to psychiatry given its ties to the billion dollar
pharmeutical industry, which provides the bulk of its treatments and research
funding.
Of course, just as Baughman's possible ties to scientology wouldn't necessarily
discredit his anti psychiatry position, the mutual benefits that pharmeuticals and
psychiatry derive from the bio-medical model doesn't necessarily disprove the
theory that mental disorders are chemical imbalances.
But it should certainly raise similar skepticism regarding psychiatry's apparent
neutrality and scientific credibility.
On 30 Sep 2006 at 13:05, Mitzi Waltz wrote:
> Colin, next time one of these things comes through your email box, try simply Googling the
> name attached and
> "scientology." Baughman is well-known in the US as a scientology spokesperson, having long
> been a "medical
> expert" with their anti-psychiatry arm, the Citizens Committee on Human Rights.
> That doesn't mean that everything he has to say is wrong or inaccurate, but one needs to
> follow the money to WHY
> it is being said. Scientology makes huge amounts of cash in the US by providing its own
> "services" for people with
> mental illness (Dianetics courses, the "“National Mental Health Assistance” group and so on)
> and drug addiction
> (Narconon). Unfortunately for people who have had experience of these "services," they are
> themselves
> outrageously abusive, money-sucking enterprises that have even resulted in death of
> vulnerable people. It's a
> rather polemical site, but you might want to have a look at http://www.scientology-kills.org/
> dead/dead.htm
> Just an FYI.
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