Posted by TheOutsider on July 6, 2004, at 9:11:31
In reply to Glenmullen is not credible, posted by Bill LL on July 6, 2004, at 8:39:06
Unfortunatly I'm not computer literate enough to post any links.
Nor am I well versed enough in neurochemistry to give a very certain anlysis of his article.There have been a lot of good posts here attacking the tone and conclusion of the article from SLS and others.
What I would like to know though is how reliable his anylisis of the monkeys brains was.It reminds me of similar scare mongering research about MDMA (Ecstacy).
Some people here will remember those pictures "This is your brain on ecstacy". They sound like the kind of 'before and after' pictures of monkeys brains, with large parts of the serotonin system destroyed.But with the MDMA studies it was later shown that the methods used to asses the brain damage caused by MDMA were wildly inacurate, and infact rather than giving a realistic picture of the damage caused by MDMA, they were infact as we say in the UK 'Complete Bollox'
Note: I am not trying to defend MDMA, I'm just wondering how sound Glenmullen's methods are.
Also I'm Dyslexic so apologies for spelling.
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