{"id":452,"date":"2011-06-18T06:57:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T12:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=452"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:42:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:42:29","slug":"voodoo-science-snake-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/18\/voodoo-science-snake-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Voodoo Science &#038; Snake Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are our children really\u00c2\u00a0at\u00c2\u00a0risk or is Patrick McGorry selling us Voodoo  Science &amp; Snake Oil? Should we trust our children&#8217;s lives to Patrick  McGorry?<\/p>\n<p>Do we want our children to be labelled with Psychosis Risk Syndrome? The  Australian\u00c2\u00a0Federal Government has handed $400 million dollars to Patrick McGorry  for a national program to create early psychosis prevention and intervention  centers, where children as young as three years old\u00c2\u00a0can be diagnosed as &#8220;at risk  of developing psychosis&#8221; and given harmful and addictive psychiatric drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Since you already know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/sideeffects.shtml\">psychiatric drugs are  harmful<\/a> for adults, what do you think the effects would be on a  three-year-old?<\/p>\n<p>What kind of lunacy would screen toddlers for &#8220;the potential to develop  mental illness later in life&#8221; and give them mind-altering drugs?<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/utopia.edu.au\/2011\/05\/voodoo-science-snake-oil\/\">http:\/\/utopia.edu.au\/2011\/05\/voodoo-science-snake-oil\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about early intervention programs, go here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrint.org\/tag\/early-intervention\/\">http:\/\/www.cchrint.org\/tag\/early-intervention\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are our children really\u00c2\u00a0at\u00c2\u00a0risk or is Patrick McGorry selling us Voodoo Science &amp; Snake Oil? Should we trust our children&#8217;s lives to Patrick McGorry? Do we want our children to be labelled with Psychosis Risk Syndrome? The Australian\u00c2\u00a0Federal Government has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/18\/voodoo-science-snake-oil\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-7i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}