Comments on: Jerome Burne, Daniel Amen and SPECT scans: “Are you wrecking your brain?”

By: Rich Critch

Rich Critch — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:31:42 +0000

I never watched him on pbs. I saw his current opus on the bestseller list and became interested. I read it. I returned it to my public libary. So be it. SPECT: sad people expend countless thousands!

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 23 May 2010 07:25:58 +0000

Why doesn’t the person/people who put this website together do a bigpharmawatch.info site instead. They’re doing infinitely more damage.

By: Holford, Burne and homeopathy on the NHS « Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:40:06 +0000

[...] Secondly, Burne has also written positively about some approaches to mental health problems which are both expensive and lacking a good evidence base. For example, one might note Burne’s piece discussing Daniel G. Amen’s work on SPECT scans.* [...]

By: jonhw

jonhw — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:12:03 +0000

Of course eating healthily and being nice to kids is a good thing. Why should we need bad science in order to do this, though? And why does this mean taking a wide range of pills without good evidence that they’ll work?

There are all kinds of advantages to healthy lifestyles and to being nice to one another. However, I fail to see how poor quality articles on non-evidence-based medical treatments help us towards these goals.

By: MelindaC

MelindaC — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:06:25 +0000

Good job michael. You are the portion on the board “not” included in the 97% !

By: MelindaC

MelindaC — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:03:40 +0000

I see that the 97% has found their way to this sight, somehow. Ah, yes, let’s type in some rude comments and feel that wisdom must not unfold at even the beginning of this new found information for others to expand upon. Yes, much better that you sit and be mean to others to somehow feel better or smarter than another as opposed to actually seeing if it can be improved. How dare you feel as if you actually contributed something to mankind through mean and controlling comments towards someone just out to actually attempt to help..in a new and interesting way! Is eating healthy, being nice to your kids, and settiing goals for improvement really snake-oil?

By: MelindaC

MelindaC — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:54:37 +0000

There is definitely something wrong with 97% of the replies I see posted on here. The idea behind the brain imaging is to actually give people a little insight as to what is actually going on in there, and to give people more than just “blind faith” to hope for a better tomorrow.
I don’t see many posts on here knocking the multi-billion dollar so called “psychiatry” industry which is so much worse off than any one chapter in Dr. Amen’s books, nor do I see any reference to the pharmaceuticals making a whole lot of money from making people sick and then trying to cure them.
Do you realize, even for a moment, that there is hope for something better. Little kids whom have drunk parents might like to wish upon a star…do you prefer to send the parents to a “real” doctor or perhaps let some new ideas shine for our next generations future??? I suppose the worst part of the little dog fight going on here, is that some of the comments made by several must have seemed clever to the one making them. I really get sick of the ones that feel smarter by acting so dumb. You are no prize, my friends.

By: peter

peter — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:56:05 +0000

Would holford watchers please read a book named spontaneous evolution, it may cahnge your opinion on science and all it satnds for. Remember science itself is a belief sysytem, nothing more. Blind faith

By: jonhw

jonhw — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:21:36 +0000

Right – so we control 97% of the population’s brains? What about the other 3% *strokes white cat, and contemplates evil things*

The issue with this work isn’t that it’s new – it’s the lack of good evidence of usefulness.

By: michael slater

michael slater — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:42:30 +0000

Typical, a new idea has been presented and you want crucify the guy, no wonder the world is on the brink of destruction with %97 of the populations brains have been changed because of your choices. Get over it and do something about your own misserables lives that your brain is giving you. People.