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Firstly Gullevi Almgren diagnoses people from media headlines , then Peter Anstrin joins the "quack party" when diagnosing me as a paranoic in Saturdays paper. Non of them is a MD but in their universe, a couple of hours with the E-meter in your hands , makes you fully qualified to diagnose and treat all the diseases on planet earth, including radiation sickness, is´nt that right? This is said by your master Lafyaette R Hubbard himself, and His Word can not be questioned!

Strongly questioned should however the fire and brimstone oaths and mix of halftruths and lies you throw like spells at your critics be. Critical should also the readers be to all the information that flushes over them in the era of informationtechnology. Read with a critical mind, question and contemplate before you take anyones argument to your heart. Information that can not be verified by independent sources is of zero value. Statements from an"authority" is of little value. Science has no authorities! In a chain of arguments every link must "hold water" or the chain is broken.

This debate is led by my opponents "Ad Hominem" - they are attacking me instead of my arguments and is painting "horrorscenarios" of psychiatry were the cure and only weapon is scientology and Narconon. When media speculates in mental disturbances in violent criminals in Stockholm, this is turned to "products of psychiatry" in their "chain of evidence" arguments against psychiatry. Arguments like : "It is well known", "investigations show", "chockreports states" is just inflated words without content. References given are misleading or false.

To name a scientologyorganisation "Citizens Commission on Human Rights" is an open mockery to mankind and a flagrant try to be mixed up with the UN Commission on Human Rights. As Narconon is meant to be with Narcotics Anonymous.

Wolves in sheeps clothing is an adequate analogy on this cult which is talking broadly and widely about freedom and rights, and at the same time extorts, threats and lies to silence critics and defectors in their tries to patch the big holes in the sheepcloth. When sued, they buys the silence from accusers. They coldly exploits our democratic system and freedom of religion as a side-scene, behind which they plays their might and money plundering pyramidegame.

To sort out Anstrins hotbed of more or less crazy arguments from 7/6 , is totally meaningless and is not hold in a debate article. impartially , however it is easy. Anstrin is betting hard on the readers ignorance, that they lacks the means or interest to inspect his illusionistic tricks. When somebody is trying to prove anything whith numbers, remember the familiar quotation of Mark Twain: There is lie, damned lie and statistics. Perhaps P.A. can explain what an "infantpsychiatrist" is when he gave me this newly contructed titel?

Though lacking the exact figures, I dare say that the care of drugaddicts is one of the most neglected areas in the swedish healthsystem of today , and I think it is outrageous that our society is letting one of its most vulnerable peoples down and that we must have a "mediarun" to get interest up.

Finally, let me correct P.A. on one point. - I have never been against drugfree treatments! Not to drugaddicts and not to other patientcategories. A physician is always striving towards lowest effective treatmenteffort- that includes medicine. Narconons "culttreatment" however,is not, has never been, and will never be any alternative.

Ulf Brettstam , Appointed by The National Board of Health and Wellfare as Expert Psychiatrist in Jönköpings län