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astazangasta
·قبل 7 سنوات·discuss
>chlorpromazine... enabled the demonstration that biochemicals such as neurotransmitters are involved in mental disorders

It does no such thing. This drug, and most antipsychotics, simply shuts down the forebrain. It "treats" psychosis by shutting off your mental function. As soon as you remove the drug (go "off your meds" because you want to think and feel again), psychosis resumes. This tells us nothing about the nature of psychosis.
astazangasta
·قبل 7 سنوات·discuss
There was a discussion of this company the other day and the suggestion that unlike the other outperforming hedge funds that turned out to just be insider trading, this one is real and they are just that smart. I am skeptical; they do not have a monopoly on brains. What they do have is some shadiness in their history:

http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/07/senate-renaissance-hed...

I am sure there is more like this waiting to be uncovered.
astazangasta
·قبل 13 سنة·discuss
As another visitor from Reddit, I apologize for this comment.

While I agree with the original commenter that this case is overblown and shouldn't be called out as sexism, it flows from error and a reaction to a real problem. To suggest that we need a "men's rights movement" to counter this sort of error seems absurd. If this is the level of "hardship" that men are facing, they have little to complain about. Men should be more concerned about helping women, who continue to face significant sexism (and harassment) in the workplace at levels far in excess of what is faced by men.