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To claim, or atleast insinuate that psychiatrists are simply these "evil people" that want to drug the poor and who do not care about science is not only a gross distortion of the truth, it is itself an insult to science as a whole. | To claim, or atleast insinuate that psychiatrists are simply these "evil people" that want to drug the poor and who do not care about science is not only a gross distortion of the truth, it is itself an insult to science as a whole. | ||
The other parts of the page, notably the "Reputation" section, are completely biased and false. Anti-psychiatry, atleast to the extent in which the page promotes it, | The other parts of the page, notably the "Reputation" section, are completely biased and false. Anti-psychiatry, atleast to the extent in which the page promotes it, is by all measures not accepted in mainstream medical circles, which in a scientific context, is almost always indicative of a fringe theory or pseudo-science. I understand that ProleWiki does not maintain a Wikipedia-like "Neutral Point of View", which I think is commonly a postive thing, but this should be a different case entirely. This page cites merely a few fringe and intellectually dubious voices, and totally ignores the vast majority of the medical community on this matter, in order to confirm a long-standing bias. This is not science, nor is it vaild from a scientific view, this is the exact tactic of Biblical Creationists and Climate Change Deniers - ignore all reasonable and common academic consensus, and only focus on a single, fringe, "scholar" who agrees with you without proof of a scientific claim, in order to justify an Anti-scientific claim. | ||
Finally, I feel that it is impossible, and additionally irresponsible, to not mention a metaphorical elephant in the room: This page has entirely been created, and further edited by a single user, {{FlowMention|Amicchan}}, previously known on ProleWki as "PrivacyIsImportantComrade...". | Finally, I feel that it is impossible, and additionally irresponsible, to not mention a metaphorical elephant in the room: This page has entirely been created, and further edited by a single user, {{FlowMention|Amicchan}}, previously known on ProleWki as "PrivacyIsImportantComrade...". | ||
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This person has promoted Anti-psychiatry, and has been very active on Anti-psychiatry communities, on a number of social media platforms, particularly Lemmygrad, before they were banned for reasons I will soon adress. | This person has promoted Anti-psychiatry, and has been very active on Anti-psychiatry communities, on a number of social media platforms, particularly Lemmygrad, before they were banned for reasons I will soon adress. | ||
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 | 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 assertions and harmful misinformation from thirty years ago 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 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]]". | 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]]". | ||