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Schizophrenia and gravity, two modern scientific myths
Todd I. Stark (toddstark@aol.com) · 12/27/00 at 10:21 ET
Thanks for your explanation. I find it very interesting and compelling, although I don't see how it connects with reality when it comes to schizophrenia in particular. IMO, it has been established beyond any reasonable doubt that the once reasonable cultural hypothesis of schizophrenia was simply and completely wrong. Bateson's theory of double bind in schizophrenia simply didn't test out, as much as I love his work on systems thinking in behavior in general. This is empirical data from half a dozen different fields of science, not arbitrary myth or some faked study promoted by someone hawking neuroleptic drugs. The kind of conspiracy it would take to skew all the research from behavioral genetics, epidemiology, neuroscience, biochemistry, and clinical neurology would be on an order that I find implausible. I know from my own reseearch reviews several years ago that there is no convincing evidence for any specific genetic etiology for schizophrenia, something that has long been assumed optimistically would be found. However, there is a web of converging data showing very clearly that it is an illness, that it is not a cultural construction, and that it has a poorer prognosis when untreated than when treated. If there is anything that deserves to be called a pathological condition, it is schizophrenia. The prognosis for measles is far better, and most people have no trouble considering measles pathological. Not that I expect any of this to change your mind, I just think others should know the facts.
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