Herb – It is completely within in your right to be dismissive even when confronted with an alternate (clinical) assumption. In my line of work people may die if I reject clinical data that I don’t personally care for. Therefore, I am compelled to remain a lifelong student of my discipline. So the real question is: Do you believe the medical discipline of psychiatry is worthy of clinical (meaning study of humans)evaluation? I’m not saying you have to like the outcomes of the data, but I am saying a good student would carefully consider them. Read the book and we’ll talk again.

Remember where this article started: “I am beginning to worry about the sanity of the Left.”