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James Woods: “There Is a War on Boys in America” | The Daily Sheeple

Posted by M. C. on August 3, 2018

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/james-woods-there-is-a-war-on-boys-in-america_082018

Like him or not, actor and outspoken conservative James Woods always has interesting things to say on Twitter.

Yesterday, he Tweeted the following:

James Woods

@RealJamesWoods

There is a war on boys in America: chemical “castration” (ritalin), the mythology of , the scourge of pedophilia (), the feminist jihad against virtually all normal male behavior in pre-teens and teens, etc. It is open war on boys and the prognosis is devastating.

The Tweet generated a lively discussion:

William Zagorski Jr❌@Wzagorski89

I was put on Ritalin back in my middle school days.

It killed my happiness and made me feel like a zombie. I hated it. I think that was the closest I’d ever been to knowing what depression feels like.

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As Babies are Prescribed Pharmaceuticals, Have We Reached Dystopia? | The Daily Bell

Posted by M. C. on August 31, 2017

There is a thing called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual DSM that doctors use to put a label on little Johnny’s disorder.  It is revised every few years. The number of conditions it describes tripled last revision. There is a pill to go each one.

The American Psychiatric Association is like the progressive bureaucrat that passes more laws to help keep his job.

From John Rappaport that follows below-

psychiatrist will prescribe that child drugs like Ritalin, Adderall, Zoloft, Paxil, or Prozac, drugs that scramble neurotransmitter systems and can very certainly cause that child to go violent.

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/as-babies-are-prescribed-pharmaceuticals-have-we-reached-dystopia/

Would you let a five-year-old smoke a joint? I certainly hope not. Yet that would probably be less harmful than loading kids up on pharmaceuticals.

Currently, over a million American children UNDER SIX YEARS OLD are taking psychiatric drugs. Babies are literally being doped up by the pharmaceutical industry. Over 274,000 babies UNDER ONE-YEAR-OLD are given drugs, mostly for anxiety. Read the rest of this entry »

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