Posted by
Charlie on Saturday, April 21, 2007 4:02:04 PM
Listening to talk radio this last week has been a trying experience. While hosts, callers and guests stretch for any acceptable explanation for the atrocity at Virginia Tech, one cannot help but notice the blind eye to the most important fact: psychiatric drugs are almost always involved in these horrible incidents. The Virginia Tech massacre is no exception.
A caller who brought this to the attention of Rush Limbaugh earlier this week had her point dismissed with a sweeping "who really knows" type of response. And years ago, Rush had spotted the Ritalin hoax perpetrated on school children and spoke forcefully about it.
A couple of years ago Hugh Hewitt interviewed a woman who wrote a book about her study of school shootings. I noticed that she did not mention the strong evidence linking psychiatric medications and violence and so I called in to make the point. Incredibly, she said they had not taken psychiatric drugs into consideration!
Who is holding the reins on the media, squashing this vital information? How do they manage to avoid this "elephant in the room"?
Here is one of many articles coming out that makes the point:
http://www.newstarget.com/021798.html
The elephant in the room is an English idiom for an obvious truth that is being ignored. It is based on the fact that an elephant in a small room would be impossible to ignore.It sometimes is used to refer to a question or problem that very
obviously stands to reason, but which is ignored for the convenience of
one or more involved parties. The idiom also implies a value judgment that the issue should be discussed openly.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_in_the_room