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• Monday, April 9, 2007 08:24 AM

  Ah but if you were really concerned about PTSD

  You'd do an article on the science, you'd do an article on the neurochemical system that underlies the phenomenon of conditioned fear. That article Salon did before was bullshit. It stopped short of the actual science. You got to the science and mumbled something about chemical receptors, and stopped because you had to stop otherwise you'd enter into a subject that is censored here at Salon.

  Salon was foreced to obfuscate the science on PTSD because the root cause of PTSD, and the most likely cure for PTSD (the one armies have been employing for thousands of years), are subjects that are simply too dangerous for the Democrats to even talk about openly right now.

  There's just all kinds of people right now who are letting down soldiers and other people afflicted with PTSD.

  You're letting them down because you have your own war going -- the war to get Democrats elected.

  You've got the PTSD soldiers enlisted in YOUR war -- and so you can't afford to endanger that war by digging too deeply into the root neurochemical cause of their suffering and the most obvious chemical cure.

  You know, I hate having to write things like this. But you're supposed to be promoting knowledge.

  When it comes to PTSD, because of the politics, all you end up spreading is more ignorance.

  I'm against ignorance, even when it's useful to the Democrats.

  And by the way -- I've had chronic PTSD since I was about twelve years old.

  And from that point of view -- I spit on you and your politically convenient ignorance and your feigned concern for people with PTSD.

  —Anonymous
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