He gets so close-

Violent crime has risen over precisely the period we have shuttered these psychiatric institutions. And you know what? The number one psychiatric institution today is jail. It’s prison. And they don’t do a very good job. And now you then get the calls to clear the jails or to have commuting of sentences or shortening of sentences. People leave those jails in a worse psychiatric condition, often, than when they even entered.

Yes! Yes!

We can do this again learning from past mistakes without those abuses. I don’t think I want to be pumping psychiatric institutions with pharmaceuticals into people.

Seems reasonable.

Faith-based approaches – there are better ways to do this.

Oh for fuck’s sake.

And, of course, the ironic thing is that Ramaswamy is a pharma bro.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    It always amuses me when people try to recommend faith or faith based healing to cure their medical or mental health problems.

    How is faith based healing any different from using the placebo effect on someone by giving them a sugar pill and telling them it’ll help cure their illness? Only difference I can see is you are replacing the pill with God, another placebo.

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      It’s worse because it attributes any improvement to God instead of you or statistical noise.