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On Lemmygrad, they had actively espoused Anti-scientific and generally Anti-intellectual rhetoric, using terms such as "Scientism" <small>[[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/364707 source]]</small> (a term which is almost always used by Christian Extremists and Flat-Earthers to make science seem like a "religion"), claiming that psychiatric diagnosis is a "myth" <small>[[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/370793 source]]</small>, posting content which suggests that psychiatrists are rapists and mental abusers <small>[[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/368364 source]]</small>, spreading a research paper which contains discredited information and harmful misinformation from thirty years which they failed to even read themselves <small>[[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/367002/comment/275850 source]]</small>, and even claiming that ADHD and Autism (which is a condition which arises before or during birth) were "Scientism", and further claiming that those very serious and proven disorders were "facts of culture" and "not based in the material world". <small>[[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/364708 source]]</small> With this user's lack of factual claims, Anti-intellectualism, and borderline ableist and denialist ideas about medical conditions, they have since been banned from Lemmygrad, and their rhetoric, along with the [https://lemmygrad.ml/c/antipsychiatry Anti-psychiatry community] itself on Lemmygrad, are the subject of ongoing [https://lemmygrad.ml/post/368618 controversy] within the website.  
On Lemmygrad, they had actively espoused Anti-scientific and generally Anti-intellectual rhetoric, using terms such as "Scientism" <small>[[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/364707 source]]</small> (a term which is almost always used by Christian Extremists and Flat-Earthers to make science seem like a "religion"), claiming that psychiatric diagnosis is a "myth" <small>[[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/370793 source]]</small>, posting content which suggests that psychiatrists are rapists and mental abusers <small>[[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/368364 source]]</small>, spreading a research paper which contains discredited information and harmful misinformation from thirty years which they failed to even read themselves <small>[[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/367002/comment/275850 source]]</small>, and even claiming that ADHD and Autism (which is a condition which arises before or during birth) were "Scientism", and further claiming that those very serious and proven disorders were "facts of culture" and "not based in the material world". <small>[[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/364708 source]]</small> With this user's lack of factual claims, Anti-intellectualism, and borderline ableist and denialist ideas about medical conditions, they have since been banned from Lemmygrad, and their rhetoric, along with the [https://lemmygrad.ml/c/antipsychiatry Anti-psychiatry community] itself on Lemmygrad, are the subject of ongoing [https://lemmygrad.ml/post/368618 controversy] within the website.  


This user clearly has a vested interest in, and bias towards, Anti-psychiatry, and the spreading of it. Already, from merely looking at this user's [[Special:Contributions/Amicchan|contributions]], nearly of their edits have been on this page (which they clearly made solely to promote Anti-psychiatry), [[Anti-psychiatry]], the [[American Psychiatric Association]], or on uploading a library work titled "[[Library:Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness|Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness]]".
This user clearly has a vested interest in, and bias towards, Anti-psychiatry, and the spreading of it. Already, from merely looking at this user's [[Special:Contributions/Amicchan|contributions]], nearly all of their edits have been on this page (which they clearly made solely to promote Anti-psychiatry), [[Anti-psychiatry]], the [[American Psychiatric Association]], or on uploading a library work titled "[[Library:Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness|Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness]]".


If this user's behavior, both in and outside of ProleWiki, is any indication, they are using ProleWiki as a soapbox, or a platform to merely promote their fringe pseudo-scientific views, and not to help build a Proletarian encyclopedia.
If this user's behavior, both in and outside of ProleWiki, is any indication, they are using ProleWiki as a soapbox, or a platform to merely promote their fringe pseudo-scientific views, and not to help build a Proletarian encyclopedia.