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First of all, let me make one thing quite clear: I am for the legalization of all drugs, I get really annoyed when people speak against marijuana, I am repulsed by the lies and propaganda that groups like DARE use against pot, and overall, I think pot is pretty cool--if you use it wisely. This book is a frivolous castle in the air. It presents all of the benefits, including some Ms Bello made up herself, and doesn't show you any of the downsides. In my experience, and in the experience of many of my friends, there are dangers as well as benefits regarding this plant. Marijuana is not some thing you can casually pick up and allow to fill your life; it can very easily take over your whole livelihood. In order to become a conscientious and responsible pot-smoker, you need to set limits for yourself, know when and when not to smoke, take up plenty of interests besides drugs, balance being "high" with being "normal", and above all, take the plant seriously! According to this book, smoking pot is like drinking water: 100% harmless, you can do it anytime you want and as much as you want, and without it, you're toast. ...This book automatically makes marijuana less safe than it would be otherwise! There are plenty of other books that will give a more balanced pro-and-con view of the old bhang! This is nothing but propaganda, equal and opposite to the propaganda used by DARE!

I found this book so over the top it was absurd. In one chapter it actually states that most people who try pot don't feel any difference at all and wonder what all the fuss is about. Give me break. I'm not anti marijuana, but I do feel there is a time and place to use it. The author seems to shove her opinion down your throat that all the cares in the world would be solved if people were to stay stoned as much as possible. Of course the economy as we know it would collapse but we would be too stoned to care. I thought the book would give a more factual account of the pros and cons I was dissappointed that it turned out to be such a fairy tale.

i enjoyed the honesty and delightful look at the more realistic side of marijuana use. This book along with 'Marijuana Myths / Marijuana Facts' are must reads for folks who want an informed, more truthful look at marijuana and how we've been, and are being, lied to by ignorant authoritiy figures such as them 'DARE' folks.

Having just read The Heat Is On and interviewed both Ross Gelbspan and Robert Balling for EV World, I came away with an appreciation of both the complexity of the issue, but also the politics underlying it. While Gelbspan admits he's no climatologist, he's interviewed numerous professionals in the field, and read the works of the leading skeptics, including Balling who would have you believe that this is a non-issue and even if it were an issue, we can't do anything about it. Ross not only thinks we can do something about it, but he's also spent the last year working with others to develop a plan to begin the gradual transition away from fossil fuels to sustainable technologies, one which won't jeopardize the global economy or the environment. EV World features RealAudio interviews with both Gelbspan and Balling.

An excellent updated companion book by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist to "The Next One Hundred Years: Shaping the Fate of Our Living Earth"[1991], by Jonathan Weiner, another Pulitzer Prize winning author.

Gelbspan is familiar with the halls of Washington & business policy and offers his readers an inside view of the mostly behind-the-scenes struggle over power and policy decision making with regard to the Global Climate Crisis.

I recommend reading this book after Weiner's, because some scientific concepts and technical jargon may not be immediately recognizable by the average reader.

Minority viewpoints among U.S. scientists have too much influence on policy, Gelbspan reports. He provides evidence that other countries have invested in alternative energy sources, i.e. geothermal, solar, and wind energy, which have helped to reduce pollution. Exposes industry front groups, e.g. "Information Council on the Environment" that give the appearance of uncertainty within the scientific community.

Interesting and good book but he keeps telling us how wonderful immigrants are and how they revitalize cities. He mentions orientals and the businesses they start over and over but never about the Mexicans that are so much more common, with large families paying relatively little in taxes but putting a tremendous burden on local governments which in turn tax more and drive taxpayers to less "diverse" jurisdictions. Just look at California, the state with the largest portion of its population foreign born. Its a financial basket case. And New York can show you two smoking holes in the ground where mighty towers once stood. I wonder what Kotkin thinks about these immigrants' contribution to the new geography?

A thoughtful analysis of technology's impact on society with some ideas that are worth acting upon.

While the premise of this book is not new, Kotkin's thoughtful analysis of how technology has and is changing our geography puts this book securely in the "must read" category.

Kotkin's premise is that technology is changing America's landscape as much or more than did the Industrial Revolution. While, in some respects, technology has de-personalized our society (and there are many tangible examples; the malling and sprawling of America with "category killer" retail and soulless master planned communities), it has also emerged as a great unifier causing people to seek more connection, not less. Moreover, technology has enabled more choices, particularly on where one chooses to live and work. Consequently, the notion of "place" is more important than in the past and consumers of place are more demanding and sophisticated.

What all this means is that we are seeing a very positive evolution back to "Renaissance" type cites (populated by artisans, small business and niche players enabled with technology) where place and commerce are wed. Conversely, we are also experiencing the segregation of the "haves" of technology and subsequent wealth from the "have-nots". Further segregation, Kotkin argues, will erode the very positives that are emerging.

Kotkin takes pains to organize his argument and does so by citing both historical markers (i.e.-Fall of Rome, the Dark Ages and The Enlightenment/Renaissance) with geographical categories that describe our emerging urban landscape (ie-Valhallas, Nerdistans, Urban Cores and Midopolis).

My one complaint is that Kotkin didn't give enough airtime to the issues around how the segregation of the classes will potentially erode the more positive impacts of technology. This subject emerges only toward the end of the book with poignant comparisons to the Fall of Rome.

While some of the rosy "Internet Era" optimism (copyright 2000) is evident here, the gist of the message remains completely valid. This is an excellent book. This "New Geography" is worth thinking about and acting upon. Kotkin's last two lines are illustrative; "As people and advanced industries hunt the globe for locations, they will not necessarily seek out those places that are the biggest, the cheapest, or the most well favored by location. Instead they will seek out a new kind of geography, one that appeals to their sense of values and their hearts, and it is there that the successful communities of the digital age will be found." Do you live in one of these communities or not? Bravo!

This is an even-handed, non-cheerleading account of how people are moving to different locations in America based on their "skill level" (by which I think Joel primarily means IQ): e.g., Nerds are moving to Nerdistans like Silicon Valley and Research Triangle, while Rich Nerds are moving to Valhallas like Aspen. Lots of good insights, although his celebrations of how immigrants are reviving cities kept me wondering how who caused them to die out. Reading Joel is kind of like talking to some wealthy liberal who has just bought a house in an all-white suburb but can't quite ever mention the name of the people who he's trying to get away from.

The author boasts both a masters degree from Columbia Pacific University (a non-accredited institution which was ordered to cease operating illegally by the Marin County Superior Court), and membership in The National Academy of Research Biochemists (a group whose membership requirements appear to be no more than a ...payment).

As references, I offer bulletins from www.quackwatch.org, a respected online resource whose mission is to "combat health-related ...myths, fads, and fallacies", and the author's own pages from his MLM companies:

...quackwatch......oasisnetwork...mindbodyhealth...

This book is written in the view of a biochemist, instead of a medical doctor. Actually, some information regarding prostate cancer and testosterone is incorrect, other information are not enough if not incorrect.

The author provides all the information one needs to take advantage of and maximize the amazing properties of DHEA in a safe and effective manner. But his DHEA Plan is not only about taking pills, but improving your lifestyle with stress-reduction techniques, an exercise program and dietary advice. Every aspect of DHEA is covered - from the plant in which it is obtained, through the manufacturing process, down to dosage directions. His witty writing style is engaging, and the book concludes with a number of appendices (resources, health support organizations, reasons why it is essential to take vitamin supplements) and a glossary, bibliography and index. I also recommend Ray Sahelian's book on DHEA, Renewal by Timothy J Smith and The Superhormone Promise by William Regelson for a superb overview of ALL the superhormones and other nutrients that can extend and improve human life.

To begin with, if you tend on the masochistic side this book will definately serve ya well. No, not because of the subject matter, absolutely not. The fact that the probabilities we're heading into extinction are increasing daily is undeniable unless you've turned your brain off and that I'd be willing to believe after having lived 37 years and watched my fellow humans go on about their affairs they way they do.

No, that would not be why this book is actually a torture. After you're done with the first half of the book you might feel a little tired if not somewhat numb. You'll just be done with going over various disasters that are threatening us, most of which are self-caused: comets about to blast us to kingdome-come, nuclear wars intending to fry us ruthlessly into oblivion, diseases which either "jumped" out of labs or out of nature's arsenal, overpopulation and pollution and the combination of thse two, shortage of food, nanotechnology and the machines taking over (where's Arnie when ya need him) and so on and on.

Now this is all a reality most of us are too irresponsible to face up to, indeed, as a species we are what i call "perversely intelligent", that is, we have intellectual horsepower which is incredibly difficult to groom in a a truly meaningful way and we are thus subjects to dangers caused by that very intelligence.

Writting a book about this, should be, again perversely, highly entertaining. It would by default be humorous because how can you actually discuss so much shortshightedness, idiocy, and the impending doom as the direct product without seeing the humour in it? The author of this book can. He takes us through these fist chapters with a language so dry and lifeless you'd think the end is already behind us and books are now written by left-over survivor computers which were not programmed for humour.
Ah, but wait. You thought this is heavy, and if you havent quit by then (being possibly not the lion-hearted type) you're in for a major treatment that will suck out all your life force and leave you connected to another machine checking for a pulse:

the latter part of the book (its second half practically) is basically a ridiculous attempt to tie all this together with philosophy. Now philosophy, for the uninitiated, isnt supposed to be a life-threatening experience. Not really. Professor Leslie though, puts in a courageous effort to convince us of the opposite, and I'd be lying if i said he doesnt coming damn close.

Taking up highly insignificant theories few ever heard of, and elevating them to the holy grail of philosophy, the author transforms his book to a readscape as fertile as the Sahara. Hundreds of pages of pretentious pomp about not much really isnt what i associate with philosophy. Especially when it's coupled with aggresive arrogance : not too few times, the author basically praises himself after he argues on his own with his imaginary opponents in the philosophy field, beats them and then triumphantly announces his victory. That's downright pathetic and even if the philosophical quest in this book was enjoyable (far, very far from) this would still spoil it beyond recovery.

Look elsewhere. You dont need the suffering really. The author does convince us that the end is near (which isnt hard actually) but then, since it is, why make it all the more agonisingly painful by going through unbearable books such as this? Save the precious little time you have left.

Some of the reviews below miss the point of John Leslie's book. Professor Leslie is a utilitarian philosopher at the University of Guelph in Ontario, and as such he's written this book with the express objective of providing a warning to civilization of the dangers that lie ahead. In spite of what the book's title may initially suggest, the book is not the work of some gloomy apocalyptic doomsayer; rather, it is a sensible consideration of the perils that an advanced civilization like our own must overcome over the next crucial period to advance. It's easy to simply take civilization for granted, but Leslie's point is that its survival is not guaranteed, but depends on the choices that we make in the near future. Prof. Leslie asserts that if humanity can make it past the next few centuries then civilization will be in fairly good shape; it's the period soon to be upon us that will be so rocky, with dangers in everything from the spread of nuclear weapons to the practice of biological warfare, from impacting asteroids to poorly thought-out particle physics experiments gone awry, from chemical weapons to the biggest threat of all-- the destruction of earth's fragile ecosystem upon which we all rely, but so often do not recognize. What Leslie is calling for is wisdom, and for the practice of restraint and discipline on a societal scale, to avoid the petty squabbles and foolish waste of resources that we can no longer afford. Admittedly some of the methodology used in the book is flawed and has been shown to be problematic, but this does not belittle its value. The book suggests that it's time to "shape up" and to put into practice, those qualities associated with "higher functioning" and a truly advanced society, and to recognize the dangers ahead of time-- thus applying foresight and planning far ahead for crises, and averting them in the first place. The book is therefore an excellent "wake-up call" to move us out of complacency, and for this reason alone it is quite valuable.

The reviewer below misses the thrust of Leslie's argument. Initially, in the first two chapters of the book, he sets out to list ALL of the ways through which society could become extinct (a notion that has not been held in high esteem for policymaking relevance, anyway, in modern society). As such, he does borrow a lot from other authors. And, adding in, his lifting of the mathematical equation suggesting that we are near the end of 'our' time on the Earth makes mathematical sense, even if being totally anthropomorphic.... And the case is made, if you let it be, that we should probably start thinking about how we are going to 'go', and plan thereof....

Aside from that, this book is a riot. The first two chapters, though morbid, are a laugh. The book (setting aside the good philosophy) should be read just for the initial paranoia. It's all in good fun....

First off - right up front...if you are on a Mac - which the majority of the graphics Photoshop world is - FORGET this book. Written for the arcane world of the PC Microsoft afflicted, it becomes tedious trying to figure out the right keyboard combinations to follow the chapters. They looked so good! They looked like so much fun! They were like flying an airplane blind...How many times does one have to go back and retrace steps to try and make your images look like the authors? How many notes do you have to scribble in the margins to translate this glop? Now, with Photoshop 7 in our machines...using this book becomes an even grander hunt for clarity. Guys - please update this for Photoshop 7 and dump the PC approach. Make it for the real graphics world to use, not just yourselves...Thanks.

As the title of this review suggests, I have mixed feelings about this book. The book offers step-by-step instructions for creating 40 different effects that range from the simple to the very complex.

One the one hand, I appreciated learning numerous keyboard shortcuts. On the other, there were several that they left out. It was nice that the authors make sure to tell you what the shortcut is for, but they often (but not always) left out why you were doing a particular action. I did get some pretty cool results from following the instructions in the book, but I was also frustrated because sometimes, even following the instructions to the letter, my results were so different than theirs I had to improvise. I was happy to learn a few different approaches to different tasks, but I also knew there were easier and more flexible ways to do the exact same things. Sometimes I was glad for the instructions, other times I felt they they were too basic, or (occasionally) flawed.

In short, I'm somewhat ambivalent about this book - sometimes it's perfectly exasperating, and sometimes I'm satisfied with it (but never ecstatic.) I am happy I bought the book used, but I wouldn't necessarily advise against buying it - though I do suspect that given what I know now, I might go with a different book if I had to choose again.

I am a multimedia developer having used Photoshop since version 3. I make a lot of interfaces for online learning material, and have been frustrated with seeing some neat designs, but not having the slighest idea how these designs are constructed. Scott and Scott's book takes you into the designs and makes it much easier to learn by providing clear instructions and loads of illustrations. Within 30 minutes of reading Section 8: Interfaces, I had completed a design and used it as the shell for one of my tutorials. This book has paid for itself may times over in saved time and impressing my bosses!

I also liked that the example files are also available from the publisher's website(friendsofed.com).

Jodi Burt
Lead Senior Technical Writer for ADP, Inc.

This is a grate book, explaining every thing about after effects very deeply but in simple ways anyone can understand.
Also it has a lot of side bars explaining basic but valuable terms from the video/animation world that every animator should now about.
I think every one who will read this book will get all the tools he needs to become an after effects animator

And thank you very much Antony Bolante

Thi Book is excellent for those who just want to get Affter Effects up and running and quickly jump into the application. It is not, however, going to teach you how to do stunning special effects, as this book is not geared for that purpose.

What this book does do however, is organize the various features of After Effects into an easy to read, quick to lookup format. This book wastes no time at all in getting you to find out what the heck that weird looking tiny button on a particular window does....as the title implies...this is a VISUAL instruction guide to After Effects.

If you are already familiar with After Effects and instead are looking for a book to teach you how to make amazing footage with it, then this is NOT the book you want.

If you are however, totally new to After effects and want to just get some darned footage, graphics and sound loaded into the application and apply some basic animated effects to these elements then this IS the book for you.

The main problem with After Effects is it's complex interface. The interface is very non-intuitive and extremely user unfriendly....that is until you know what the heck you are doing in it. This is where this book comes in. I was able to pick up this book and in about 20 mins pretty much know the basics of what the heck I was doing in After Effects. I am one of these people who hates long boring labourious explanations for simplistic concepts....in other words WHAT DOES THIS BUTTON DO and tell me in like one paragraph not a whole bloody chapter....that's exactly what this book does. It completely cuts to the chase in plain simple, easy to understand terms.

If you want to learn creative techniques and shapen your blending, composition and editing skills then stay far away from this book and go by a book for that purpose. But if you have just loaded up After Effects for the first time and are sitting there staring at it wondering why the damned application will not allow you to change the duration of footage, or how the heck to apply a rotation over time (instead of instantaneously) then this book will help you with those basic concepts and it will help you FAST!

And finally, cheers to the Author who made great efforts NOT to jam the book full of techie talk. Thank you so much for skipping the BS and using Plain English to explain things.

I found his book not intended to learn from. It is a great reference book to get you up to speed on what things are and where they are located. Example, whats motion math and where are the parameters. If you want to learn how to inpliment motion math into your work, you need to get another book. I would not be learning AE without this book. I hate reading the adobe pdf's. Also for (...)how can you complain. If your seriously interested in AE then you should have about every piece of info you can your hands on.

Modesitt is at his best when he concentrates on action, and reins in his regrettable tendency to preachiness. Like many other readers, I liked THE PARAFAITH WAR, and other Modesitt books like ADIAMANTE. I found myself completely turned off by THE ETHOS EFFECT. The first third or so of the book is vintage Modesitt; the last two thirds are lost in a fog of murk as Modesitt commits attempted philosophy.

Didacticism is always a heavy load for any work of fiction; it's even worse when the message is so completely confused that you wonder what it's supposed to be. The book's protagonist commits mass murder--in what he sees as a good cause, of course. Normally, this should be viewed as the action of a depraved, mad, or wicked man. However, Modesitt doesn't seem to see his hero that way. Instead, gives us some mumblings of what appear to be an attempt at philosophical ethics, but these mumblings are of no help whatever in understanding the actions of the character within the story. The most cogent and concise review of this book would probably be: "Eh?"

Actually, I'm being charitable to Modesitt; if I understood what he was saying, this might be something much worse than a book of bad fiction. One could read this as a paean to mass murder; an exaltation of genocide; a rhapsody of ends justifying the means. (...)

But lo, I am uncharitable. As I said, I really can't understand what Modesitt is mumbling about in the Ethos Effect, so it's not an evil book--just a very bad one.

In some ways, this is a sequel to the "Parafaith War." But it is also a sequel to many of his other novels that struggle with a heros ethical response to a corrupt system. As in other novels, the hero makes a self-conscious search for an ethical understanding of how to confront the systematic evil of a culture. Although individual actions are important, a lot of energy is around the context that nourishes evil.

Modesitt also tends to view religion/faith as a hand-maiden of the corrupt ethos, validating oppression of those who are different in race, color or custom.

As in some of his other books, the hero solution is to do massive surgery in society. He eliminates the headquarters of evil along with millions of other not so innocents. Unfortunately, violence tends to be a tempory bandaid. The hero suffers overwhelming guilt and personal destruction, requiring months of reconstruction by super-human agents.

In the "Parafaith War" the hero is described as a "Kristos" figure, although the right term would be a "Jesus" figure.

The "Kristos" or "Anointed by God" referred to the Jesus/redeemer hero who was anointed by "God" as his incarnate son because he was living out "God's" plan for the confrontation of the evil ethos.

The Jesus of Nazareth, confronted the evil ethos by spending 3 years with a small group of trainees building community; personally healing and teaching those who came to him. He choose to confront the evil ethos of his own culture and religious establishment as a martyr(witness) until he was brutally killed by the religious establishment that claimed validation from his God.

At his death, Jesus community of trainees fell apart, until a "risen" Jesus returned to inspire them. He sent his spirit to empower them as communities to continue the non-violent confrontation and witness to the evil ethos. The community of faith witnesses without massive surgery of evil in society.

Of course this is only one interpretation of the "Jesus" response to the evil ethos.

Modesitt is probably my favorite author. I found this book less focused and less powerful than the "Parafaith War"

The Ethos Effect is a sequel of The Parafaith War. In the previous volume, Major Trystin Desoll was a Major in the Eco-Tech Coalition forces. The Coalition was hard pressed by the superior numbers of the Revenant forces that were attacking Eco-Tech worlds. Desoll undertook a dangerous mission to assassinate a Revenant admiral and archbishop, but added a spin of his own that led the Revenants to believe that the death was an expression of divine wrath. This apparent act of God resulted in a cessation of the war and a rewriting of the Revenant holy writ.

In this novel, some two centuries later, the Revenants have again become expansionist and are crowding the Republic of Tara and other small polities in nearby systems. Commander Van C. Albert is a veteran ship commander in the Taran Republic Space Force who had been responsible for the destruction of the Vetachi, a renegade terraforming vessel that had been rampaging among the commercial ships within that sector. Unfortunately, the renegade had been stalking the Regneri, a colony ship, and the resulting explosion caused an errant torp to launch from the renegade and destroy the other ship. Since then, Albert has been relegated to older ships and smaller commands.

Albert's current command, the RSFS Fergus, is preparing to jump to its next station when it receives an urgent message to change destinations to Gotland in the Scandya system to replace the RSFS Collyns. Further orders will be sent by courier to Gotland. Revising their jump coordinates, the Fergus transits to Scandya and is immediately attacked by an unidentified warship. Albert's crew quickly responds to the attack and destroys the other ship.

Albert sends a battle report by message torp back to headquarters. When questioned by the local self defense forces, Albert admits detecting unusual emissions from further outside the system, but denies any other knowledge. When the Fergus achieves orbit around Gotland, a courier brings a replacement commander for the Fergus and orders for Albert himself to be reassigned as the the Naval Attaché in the local Taran embassy. He is to replace a fellow officer who was killed in a sailing accident.

Since Albert has not been receiving the plum career assignments, he has little training or knowledge of his embassy duties. However, he starts gathering information from the records, other embassy staffers and his counterparts in the other embassies and the Scandyan SDF. He is well and thoroughly ignored by the Revenant Naval Attaché, but cooperatively received by his other peers and forms a good working relationship with the Second Secretary in his embassy. From the information received from various sources, he begins to wonder about his predecessor's death and the situation in Scandya.

Then Albert foils an assassination of high Scandyan government officials and is severely wounded. Although eventually restored to full health, he is recalled to Tara, where he is presented with a high award, promoted to Commodore, and retired from the service. He soon finds that he is too highly qualified to work as a pilot, but still doesn't want to become a desk jockey.

During this time, he is offered a job by Trystin Desoll, now managing director of Integrated Information Systems, a developer of proprietary business intelligence for multisystem corporations and governments. The job has the title of senior director and will involve piloting one of the IIS courier ships as well as acting as a consultant to planetary managers and clientele.

When Albert finally accepts the job with IIS, he is provided with training on the corporation's proprietary systems and then sent on specific assignments. From the business intelligence gathered by IIS and his own observations during these assignments, Albert begins to see a very dark and dangerous pattern emerging. Apparently IIS is attempting to counter this pattern, but things are looking bad.

Albert also discovers that Desoll has close connections with the Farhkan aliens. They seem to be interested in human affairs, but refrain from too close relationships with most humans. Desoll seems to be an exception.

This story continues to examine the ethical questions raised in the previous volume regarding interference in other societies. The Farhkans believe that such interference will corrupt their own society. Desoll has interfered once before in Revenant society with mixed results. So how can one society justify massive interference with another?

In contrast with the Farhkan viewpoint, the Revenants know that they are only obeying the will of God, so have no qualms about completely disrupting another society. The Taran Republic seems to be developing an ethic of survival at all cost, which justifies any degree of intervention in another society and even their own. Are these the only alternatives?

Highly recommended for Modesitt fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of social conflict and personal ethics.

Having suffered from bi-polar disorder some forty-seven years, I take great exception to Dr. Breggin's book. Dr. Breggin, do you know of what you speak. I do. I have received some 300 ECT's , insulin therapy and quite a few other treatments of the "barbaric" variety. I wouldn't be writing this review, nor the father of five very productive children if if weren't for these treatments. I served as an advocate for ECT before my state's legislature in 1998 when the state was trying to "outlaw" these treatments. They didn't, incidentally. No, I would have preferred other forms of therapy, but in my particular case they have offered prompt solutions to depressions which would have completely debilitated me and prevented my being able to function altogether. So I suggest the good "doc" take a few of these treatments himself and get back in the real enlightened world of mental health treatment. As for psychotropic drugs, I'll gladly keep taking mine, until someone comes along with the ability to "ward off evil spirits".

Dr. Breggin continues to be the critcally needed conscience of fraud psychiatry with its junk science and fraud theories promoted as proven science on a naive, gullible public brainwashed by the current nazi doctors, creators of the Holocaust, all genocide after practicing their murderous arts on those labelled mentally ill in the nazi era, which they used in the wars against women, children, blacks and any other powerless victims they could exploit to further their evil fraud, greed and power as the USA BIG BOTHER organization funded and promoted by their cohorts BIGPHARMA, the noble, courageous Dr. Peter Breggin exposes with fact after fact and all too many real studies. I feel sorry for those brainwashed by these evil frauds as I was in the past unable to do their own research like me as a Division scholar librarian. Dr. Breggin has a growing number of like minded ETHICAL whistleblowers fighting at great costs to expose these evil child killer psychiatrists with their current horrific assaults against humanity. Fortunately, ethical neurologists like Dr. Fred Baughman and others horrified by the psychiatric fraud against innocent babies no less to kill them at the youngest age have joined the noble Dr. Breggin in exposing the absolute FRAUD of BIGPHARMA funded psychiatrists, the APA, NAMI, CHADD, the dishonest Surgeon General, the FDA, the medical journals and all other government and other agencies getting rich and gaining much totalitarian power, their real job always, and profit to rob their victims of their minds, bodies, spirits and ALL DUE PROCESS AND CIVIL rights as "WHORES OF THE COURT" in our so called democratic USA. Like Dr. Baughman ask any of the BIGPHARMA backed frauds above to cite the exact scientific evidence, journal articles, proof, documentation that proves the evil lie brainwashing biomedical reductionist THEORIES perpetrated as proven science as he did the Surgeon General, psychiatrists, the APA and others and either he got NO RESPONSE or weak admissions that such PROOF does not exist YET after billions of wasted tax and other funds for many years to perpetrate this destructive fraud against unsuspecting victims trusting them as the doctors they pretend to be with their ongoing MAD DOCTORING as Dr. Breggin exposes here and all too clearly elsewhere along with a growing number of outraged ethical people within and without this evil profession that MUST be eliminated once and for all before we are a destroyed nation of zombies with no brains and cripples in their evil dictatorship they have almost totally accomplishied in the USA and are trying to inflict on other countries worldwide where the so called mentally ill there have proven they recover without this evil treatment while their psychiatric victims in the USA often do not and Dr. Breggin exposes why in this critically needed book and his others to save victims once they catch on to the evil fraud and destruction of their lives by these evil witch hunters in the guise of help. Dr. Breggin exposes why Dr. Loren Mosher, another famous and successful psychiatrist with impeccable credentials resigned from the APA in disgust for its incestuous relationship with the huge drug industry for greed and profit at the cost of countless lives, babies and children no less, to show their evil has no limits. Read this and other of Dr.Breggin's and similar antipsychiatry books and sites and know why these evil fraud so called doctors are the only ones who need massive security and guards because they fear their nonviolent protesting "former not so satisfied "patients" with their destroyed lives or survival at untold costs. I pity anyone who has fallen for the evil fraud of ADD, bipolar, depression and other so called fraud unproven junk science promoted as proven diseases and proven brain imbalances to show these people have no ethics, conscience or concern about the TRUTH whatever and freely repeat these evil lies in government documents, medical journals by BIGPHARMA with psychiatrist ghost writers exposed despite all evidence to the contrary. Dr. Peter Breggin like Dr. Baughman exposes that any so called brain damage or differences they find and use fraudulently as evidence for their fraud is iatrogenic or toxic drug damage from their toxic drugs and treatments after they inflict their fraudulent victim blaming misdiagnoses when they know all too well that anyone they trap in their webs of deceit have been abused and traumatized or have serious live problems they exploit to totally destroy the victim seeking help, making them helpless, trapped and less able to escape or cope, a shocking horrible betrayal and exploitation of people in crisis. YOU MUST READ THIS AND ALL DR. BREGGIN's CRITICAL BOOKS exposing this evil fraud and all those ethical whistleblowers you can be sure BIGPHARMA and their psyhchiatric cohorts and drug funded organizations like NAMI passing the buck of their evil, bad parenting or attempts to eliminate competitors for money and power as they have historically and will do all to attack and discredit as they spout their junk pseudoscience and pretend it is proven fact as usual since the truth has no meaning from a group like the APA that openly admits to "dancing with the devil," BIGPHARMA, they admit they must then allow to "call the shots" and they sure do as Dr. Breggin exposes here and elsewhere. See his excellent website and other courageous honest ethical heroes courageously exposing this evil fraud at great cost to themselves. They like other heroes deserve our support. BUY THIS BOOK and avoid the mental death profession like the plague. BEEN THERE WITH PREVIOUS SUCCESSFUL CAREER AND LIFE DESTROYED BY A NAZI DOCTOR in about 15 minutes with a life death sentence, a bunchof toxic drugs sure to make me crazy when I wasn't then, real doctoring; no, MAD DOCTORING FROM THE REAL CRAZIES with "delusional dominating disorder" as exposed by Dr. Paula Caplan in THEY SAY YOUR CRAZY, another excellent exposure among a growing number protesting pschychiatric evil and fraud.

This book helped my son, but unfortunately the information it contains came to me too late to help a woman friend whose brain was severely damaged by neuroleptic drugs. My son was taking a popular anti-depressant administered by a Psychaitrist. He was able to get out of bed which was some improvement in his condition and was limping along through life when I told him of the possible destructive effects and essential ineffectualness of these psychaiatric drugs which attack symptoms only. He immediately fired his psychaitrist whose sessions consisted merely of asking him if he felt better, contacted a psychologist and started a course of talk therapy. There were times when he hated me, times when he hated his mother, but now he is doing fine without the need for drugs. I have done considerable research on the findings outlined in the book. The National Library of Health website is full of articles confirming the incredibly destructive effects of these drugs on a significant percentage of patients.

It is 62 degrees in early January in Massachusetts. Another all-time record for New England... Oh yes I forgot, there is no such thing as global warming! Thanks Dr. Micheals (paid consultant for the oil industry). I just can't forget that among the 1200 scientists that put that one page ad in the NY Times, there were several Nobel laureats. I hope Dr. Micheals isn't holding his breath for his.

If you want to hear more about Dr. Micheals ties to the 2+ trillion dollar oil industry, read Ross Gelbspans book "The Heat is On".

Mr. Michaels takes pleasure from referencing "research" performed by those same companies that lobby congress to ensure that CAFE standards are not altered for SUVs. He fails to mention the vast body of evidence presented in highly repected journals such as Science and Nature which suggest conclusions that differ from Exxon's. As someone with both a military and technical background- even I find it hard to believe people still questioning the link between climate change and human activity.

I Read "Sound and Fury" and I just can't wait for his second book, entitled "Satanic Gases" to hit the shelves. The first was a well written book that ignores the media hype and gives the readers the facts. Keep up the good work!