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Coercive psychiatry in general should be scrutinised more by honest psychiatrists without conflicts of interest.

Else the only people examining it would be: 1) Scientologists; 2) the most extreme versions of anti-psychiatry or 3) grifting charlatans like Laura Delano (to whom the predictably awful NYT gives space along with Reefer Madness shills like the nightmarish sleazebags you find at Stanford Psychiatry for instance. E.g.: Nina Vasan, Smita Das, Keith Humphreys).

Similarly creepy people in bed with sleazy data-miners Google’s Andy Ng or Google in general (I was thinking of that Woebot female andThomas Insel) should face strict oversight. Stanford, Google and Facebook associated psychiatrists should be scrutinized by decent shrinks and human rights advocates. This should not have needed spelling out.

I am sympathetic some to Mad in America. But they are a little too extreme for me. I have no quarrel with psychiatry, but working in one of the greyest areas of medicine is nothing like specialising in different areas of physical medicine. That is where you have to use your brain not scripts.

Medicine is generally fairly apolitical. But psychiatry and psychology less so.

Human behavior in these overpopulated, stressed out societies cannot be treated brainlessly by corrupt and incompetent people who shill VR, chatbots etc but don’t think like actual scientists nor question scripts that are out of date for a world that has changed as drastically as ours has in the last 20 years. Accelerationism without common sense or any checks on greed and avarice.

It is obviously a blatant conflict of interest to work with the surveillance state or surveillance capitalism without privacy/civil rights advocates on board who do safeguard patient’s rights.

Privacy International is a decent group. But groups like that are themselves targeted by the Panopticon. Privacy International had recently sent out an email about how abortion rights advocates are targeted by the police state.

This era will end as society nears rock bottom with a lot of repercussions for at least the low hanging fruit amongst our sleazy, corrupt and occasionally depraved pseudo-elite.