> More than 1 in 7 American children get diagnosed with ADHD—three times what experts have said is appropriate—meaning that millions of kids are misdiagnosed and taking medications such as Adderall or Concerta for a psychiatric condition they probably do not have. The numbers rise every year. And still, many experts and drug companies deny any cause for concern. In fact, they say that adults and the rest of the world should embrace ADHD and that its medications will transform their lives.
Properly designed preregistered studies are credible even if they're funded by people you don't like. All medication in the US is approved by studies funded by the company that applies to be able to sell it. Who else would be motivated to study them?
You miss the point - a larger population isn't necessarily good if most of them are not economically productive (i.e. don't have skilled working class). Are people supposed to work even in their old age, till they die?
That "peak prosperity" thing is actually capitalism gone awry in my opinion. I'd include India too here - a common pattern that can be seen in all these three Asian countries is the unhealthy work-life balance. Couple that with the world-wide trend that two incomes are now necessary to raise kids in many of these "fast" growing or economically "prosperous" countries, most people are just choosing to have only 1 (or at most 2 kids), and there are some who are also opting not to have any kids. In India, the opposition leader has also lamented that we have already lost advantage of having a younger population because of poor economic planning and policies (by 2030, India will have the world’s largest youth population). Trump won, in large part, because many Americans are now struggling to feel secure with the wages that they earn - they can't afford to buy a house, which many feel is required to start a family. A course correction is required in the world economy, as, while capitalism-consumerism does seem to provide prosperity, it also seems to be consuming societies that adopts it.
To add to what the parent comment said - Lithium is also prescribed for some mood disorders. So if you are thinking of self-medicating with it please be aware that it can mess with your brain chemistry too.
A quick look suggests strong typing and that's a huge plus. The syntax is easy to understand and read, but I hope it will be consistent - if writeInt, why not writeStr etc. too?
This should be a wake up call for India (and other countries), to create laws, to assert its "Digital Sovereignty" and stronger Data Privacy laws (including forcing data to be stored locally) so that foreign business cannot disrupt activities or strong-arm or dictate terms to local companies.
It's an indication of how much the political landscape of the middle-east has changed. Prior Arab leaders had a sense of pride and independence about their region, and even stood up to the superpowers when they interfered in their politics (as much they could). Arab leaders today are mostly American pawns. Future generation of Arabs will woe at the short-sightedness of their leaders in allowing the current Israeli-right to cull the Palestinians and occupy Gaza, and parts of Syria and Lebanon, to work on their "Greater Israel" project and expand their power in the region. Arab leaders should also be genuinely ashamed that they chose to be bystanders as Palestinians are being slaughtered, instead of working together to pressure Netanyahu's government to end the genocide in Gaza and make him face international justice as a war criminal for his crimes against humanity. Instead, they don't even have the political foresight to understand that they are being manipulated to protect Netanyahu's interest.
Or perhaps they have matured and understand that the current war in Gaza was caused by Hamas' actual crime against humanity on October 7th and their continued strategy to cause bloodshed.
If you remove Hamas there is not longer any justification for the war and Israel would have to stop, Us support would evaporate, too. This would be the best way to protect civilians on all sides and to push for longer term negotiations.
There is a big difference between supporting Palestinians and supporting Hamas, which seems to be lost on many.
In fact, it is a big mistake for France and the UK to recognise a Palestinian state without conditions as it in effect vindicates Hamas and so can only create move violence.
What are you saying? That without the oct 7. terrorist attacks Israel still has justification for the Gaza genocide? That there is no difference in supporting Hamas and supporting Palestinians?
There is nothing vague about any of these terms. I suspect you are not asking in good faith, but I will pretend otherwise.
The first is a crime against humanity, and includes the ongoing Gaza genocide conducted by Israel, as well as the Rohingya Genocide condected by Burma, the Cambodian Genocide conducted by the Khmer Rouge, etc.
The second is a people group of mostly Arabic speaking people who lived or are descended from people who lived in historic Palestine in what is now Israel and the Israeli occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza.
The third is a political organization and a terrorist group which operates and is the single ruling party of the Israeli occupied territory of Gaza, who‘s primary political position is the liberation of Palestine.
There is also a big difference between supporting a peaceful resolution to the current situation and not acknowledging that Israel has played a huge part in the current situation prior to October 7th and has participated in genocide and ethnic cleansing after.
The existence of settlements in Palestinian land is not something the International community should have tolerated for days never mind decades.
There are lots of parties, including Hamas, that could have helped avoid where we are today. A shameful place for the whole world.
I think it is very sad that people are still blaming other people than Israel for the Gaza Genocide. Hamas is not doing the Gaza genocide, and yet we regularly see Hamas being blamed for it.
I will offer an alternative theory from yours: If you remove Hamas it is still quite likely that Israel will find a different justification in a different time for their genocide, and would conduct it anyway with Western aid and complicity.
> I think it is very sad that people are still blaming other people than Israel for the Gaza Genocide.
Its very sad that people are calling the genocide of the Palestinian people Israel has been engaged in for generations and which has never been limited to Gaza, “the Gaza Genocide”, and pretending it has a timetable that only reinforces the Israeli propaganda that what is actually being described is not a long-running genocide to which the Hamas Oct 7 attack was an (illegal and worthy of international sanction!) response, but instead a response to the Oct 7 attack.
I do think the Gaza genocide is so atrocious it deserves a name of its own. Otherwise I agree with you. The focus on the Gaza Genocide often overshadows other genocidal atrocities which Israel has been systematically conducting against Palestinians for generations.
The current situation in Gaza highlights how Israeli government has historically modulated the Palestinian genocide according to what it thinks domestic and international (the latter being most particularly US government, necessary for both direct aid/active military defense and the shield of the Security Council veto, and which effectively insulates it from most meaningful consequences from other international quarters) support will tolerate based on the available pretexts it can use to provide superficial PR cover even while from the other side of its mouth it is fairly openly spouting eliminationist rhetoric, but its not a separate thing (and, in fact, Israel has used the focus of attention on the situation in Gaza to ramp up attacks in the West Bank with little comment; underlining how its all part of one coordinated, integrated project.)
Pakistani military is famous for its claim that the people of our region don't have the "temperament" for democracy. Sometimes I am amazed how far we indians have managed to tenaciously hold on to our democratic values, when one considers all our internal differences and our immediate neighbours. Recent e.g. - Bangladesh: while the western media paints the recent revolution there as a "democratic" movement against an autocrat, like the Maidan revolution, if you look deeper you find there is nothing really democratic about it; the Awami League, a popular national party, has been banned as apparently "democracy" for such "democratic revolutionaries" means allowing right-wing parties to participate in the elections while holding elections without an opposition.
Mostly, unfortunately, funded by Pharmaceutical companies - ADHD Nation: Children, Doctors, Big Pharma, and the Making of an American Epidemic ( https://www.amazon.com/ADHD-Nation-Children-American-Epidemi... ):
> More than 1 in 7 American children get diagnosed with ADHD—three times what experts have said is appropriate—meaning that millions of kids are misdiagnosed and taking medications such as Adderall or Concerta for a psychiatric condition they probably do not have. The numbers rise every year. And still, many experts and drug companies deny any cause for concern. In fact, they say that adults and the rest of the world should embrace ADHD and that its medications will transform their lives.
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