I’m just funnin’ with y’all. The New York Times cares about gun rights like the Mayor of Bikinis, Texas cares about political correctness. Even so, we can connect these dots without the Gray Lady’s help. “Gun owners Patients and parents concerned about mental illness have every right to be confused,” the Times’ Editorial Board admits. “The head of the federal agency that finances mental health research has just declared that the most important diagnostic manual for psychiatric diseases lacks scientific validity and needs to be bolstered by a new classification system based on biology, not just psychiatric opinion. The hitch is that such a biology-based system will not be available for a decade or more.” To be clear . . .
Fighting Myths and Misinformation About ‘Gun Violence’ One Letter to the Editor at a Time
By Robert B Young, MD I wrote the following reply to an article by Liza Gold, MD, “Gun Violence and Mental Illness: It’s Time to Change the Status Quo” (8/29/19). Psychiatric News editor Cathy Brown referred my response to their executive editor, Jeffrey Borenstein, MD, who has declined DRGO’s input in the past and did … Read more