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News Briefs 23-02-2005

I’d like to see them get a pipeline from Titan.

  • Russian scientists develop a tablet to prolong drunkeness.
  • Dinosaurs done in by fungus.
  • Paranormal: near death experiences.
  • Mars may have frozen subterranean sea.
  • Microbes survive deep permafrost.
  • New data may reveal past life on Mars.
  • Ancient mangrove forests found under reef.
  • Cosmic insight into pyramids.
  • Did early man turn the outback into a desert?
  • Ice man reveals stone age secrets.
  • Astronomers claim dark galaxy find.
  • The princes of plunder.
  • Epidemic of a phantom disease.
  • An investigation into the CIA’s black budget and the second Manhattan project. They invented the cocktail.
  • Ritter: war with Iran in June. I hope June isn’t a person.
  • Did the Pentagon manufacture AIDS as a biological weapon.
  • Titan farts. But is it cows in the permafrost or is it a planet of oil? And if the latter, expect us to be at war with Titan in April.
  • Gamma-ray bursts could be the signature of ultradense stars.

Quote of the Day:

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

  1. Finally!
    Finally someone is having the guts to say out loud that ADHD does not exist.
    There have been a lot of medical mistakes foisted on a public either too gullible or too lazy to see the truth.
    These children are suffering from a syndrome I call “Neglected by the Parents” syndrome.
    I read recently that some doctors advocate taking ADHD sufferers out into the outdoors with family members for a fairly long period each day, saying that there is something about the outdoors that helps them.I’d say that there is also something about the family members giving the kids attention that helps them.
    I also predict that the day will come when mammograms for all women over 40 years will be abolished due to the fact that the x-rays are causing the cancers.
    But that’s another story.

    shadows

    1. ow I have to disagree with so
      ow I have to disagree with some of what you said shadow 🙁 It is not always the parents fault. My stepson was diagnosed as having ADHD before I came on the scene. My wife was taking him to see a psychiatrist. This buffoon had him on drugs with no result…his answer was to give the poor lad a bigger dose. As I was around when he did so I took him off the drugs completely and we never went back. There was no change in his attitude at all. In other words it did not get worse without the drugs. Now a few years past and the kid is a nightmare. I still do not believe he has ADHD; in fact he passed all the tests saying he was a normal average child, no dyslexia or learning disorder. He is just a little turd. He cares about no one but himself and will do nothing without reward. His nanna has said that he is a clone of his father and so has my wife. I never believed that people could be genetically programmed by the parents till I met him. I always believed that we make our own choices. I mean my father bashed my mother and I, he is manic depressive, a drug and alcohol user (I only met with him when I was 19 and we are closer than anything now)My stepfather beat me quite badly all the time with anything from cricket stumps to fists. According to popular theory I should be a real bastard. But I am not, much to my chagrin I am constantly referred to as “nice” Why? Because I made the discission not to be like that. But with my stepson it’s different. He won’t listen to any form of reason. He is just a very naughty boy. Some people are just not very nice. Yes he is a teenager (13) but his look on life is much worse than others of his age. I keep telling the wife that he will grow out of it…but unfortunately even I do not believe he will.

      1. I’m sorry
        Electricmonk,I am so sorry.I did not mean to cause you pain,I was just running off at the mouth again.
        It breaks my heart to hear a story as sad as your’s,you never know the tragic secrets some people carry with them throughout life.
        Maybe our parents were right when they said that the apple does not fall far from the tree.
        This argument about whether or not genes should take the responsibily for our behaviour is one I have been having for years with some friends who are brilliant,exceptionally well educated and determined that no one should be responsible for anything as it is all in our genes.The Myers Briggs personality tests were the reason for a lot of people to say that if that was their personality type then so be it.
        I know someone whose test results proved that she was a very black and white personality.Thus she is living her life dominating her family who say that there is nothing to be done,as she is as she is.
        For a start these tests are very subjective and have been proven to be a farce.
        An old psychiatrist friend of many years always told me that yes, certain things about us are set in stone, but our character can always be built.
        The children I was referring to who are diagnosed with ADHD are almost entirely neglected in the sense that they have no parental input into their upbringing.
        When a parent uses TV and video games as a method of entertaining and educating his children I don’t know why he is surprised that the child will not respond to him.
        These are the children being dosed with amphetamines.Lack of parental input has resulted in an unruly child;the parent then continues the lack of interest by drugging the child instead of supplying the missing parental input.
        Your step-son sounds just like you described him.His genes are maybe too dominant for any behavioural traits to manage them, and his age is against him for the time being.
        A lot of these children grow into perfectly normal human beings when they get old enough and mature enough to work it out for themselves.
        Some never do.
        It is a sad situation.
        Have you and your wife ever thought about allergic reactions in the boy? As in gluten for instance;it can cause shocking reactions in the young.I would certainly have him tested for coeliac disease caused by an inability to metabolise the gluten in his diet.
        Another allergic reaction can be caused by additives in food and from sugar.
        Sugar causes extremely bad behaviour in a couple of my grandchildren so it is excluded from their diet.
        I was complaining because psychiatrists are using drugs to treat a condition in children that they have not proven is in need of drugs.
        This is all being done without any scientific investigation or medical proof.
        If this was done to animals there would be an uproar, and yet children are subjected to it constantly.
        No one knows the effects of these drugs long term from childhood to adulthood so it is really experimental.
        As far as I am concerned I believe you did the right thing in taking your stepson off the drugs, but if you were in America you would be in jail.
        There is no union for kids, and there is no children’s rights society.
        We adults are all they have and you have done the best you can.
        Give the boy time,and I mean that in two ways.Give him time to learn about himself, and give him your time if you can.
        There is nothing more valuable you can give your child than time.
        And don’t take responsibility for something that was already established before you came along.
        It is a heart-rending situation and I am sorry you felt that I was attacking all parents.
        Children who are born with a problem are in the same boat as children who develop one.
        They are all being used as laboratory animals by psychiatrists.
        And remember that psychiatry is the branch of medicine where no one ever sues.
        The psychiatrist can always say after losing a patient…well I knew he was mad all along.

        shadows

      2. Oh dear — sounds like you need…
        …help from the Supernanny!

        Near the top left of this site, you’ll see:
        Are your kids driving you nuts? Is your house a zoo?
        We’re looking for families with children (infants to teens) to take part in Supernanny.

        Download, print and fill out this form, then fax it to:
        (323)904-4681

        I know the above may seem like an unfunny joke, but you do need to try something, and that something should be a dramatic departure from whatever hasn’t worked in the past. The couple the Supernanny worked with in my city gushed on the nightly news that she had transformed their lives. No one really knows whether or not a peculiar configuation of genes can predispose someone to become a sociopath. At this point, there’s far more data which suggests that many kids just live down to their parents’ expectations. Maybe you’re right about him, but imho, you shouldn’t give up on a 13 year old.

        Kat

        1. Well said Kat!
          You got it in one!
          But does Supernanny make house calls to Australia?
          If so, I might get her to deal with a very recalcitrant parrot, who is out there now singing in Czech thinking I am going to go and admire him.
          Oh of course I am!

          shadows

          1. house calls to Oz?
            >>But does Supernanny make house calls to Australia?

            She’s only taken on the UK and US so far, but her new book, Supernanny, is due out in March, ’05. And you can pre-order it from amazon now.

            I don’t know where ElectricMonk lives, but wherever he is, his situation certainly sounds desperate enough to draw her attention.

            Wishing him well,
            Kat

          2. he’s an aussie
            Electricmonk is an Aussie so he will have to wait like the rest of us.Sounds like a great idea.

            shadows

      3. rock and a hard place
        electricmonk I really feel for you. I have a nephew who is adhd and I personally never believed it to be an authintic illness. But there must be some explaination for these children loosing it. I,m sure in a lot of cases it is lazy parenting or simply negative communication with the child. I never a any problems talking to him or he was never nauhty around me, at least no more than any other child, but I was never around him long enough for him to get comfortable around me to start being a little shit. i know my sister went through hell with him. I’m sure there is a genetic link, he is very much like his dad, but choices do come to the fore. So should we look at why these kids choose not be be good. Are they seeing something we are not? Or is their brain a milisecond ahead of ours; before they have a chance to finnish what they are doing, their thinking allready of the next thing.This could explain some behavior. My son is 8 and he is somewhat auckward and his tends to charge into everything without giving any thought to the process resulting in small injury and a lot of breakages. Simple tasks as puring milk on his cereal will result in 10 minutes of cleaning up after him. I sit him down quietly and talk simple and direct to him, but I always get him to look in my eyes. This helps as well as positive reasurance.
        Have you tried yoga or similar for him to focus on meditation or somthing.
        I really don’t know but I’m sure the drugs is not the way.
        Hope we have an understanding of the problem someday for all our sakes.
        Good luck with him and hope your patience stays.

        the one who seeks with open heart and mind will find the truth

        1. difficult kids
          Hi Floppy,
          I have an awkward granddaughter.She breaks every glass she picks up and gets very distressed about it.I think it is something to do with her birth which was difficult.
          You say you have to get your son to look in your eyes.My older son was like that.If I didn’t have eye contact with him I knew I didn’t have him.
          It is lack of concentration and mostly that improves with age.
          I know how difficult it is though when you have to struggle with a child who does not seem to cope as well as others.
          I hope someone sorts it out too.

          shadows

          1. Sorry shadows, the humour in
            Sorry shadows, the humour in my first line was lost in text form. I was not offended or hurt by the comments at all, just pointing out that my case was different. I am rarely hurt or even annoyed (Unless someone calls me “nice” I HATE that)
            I too believe that we make ourselves what we are. I am very conscious of the decisions I make. Probably too much. I also have the problem of seeing Black/White. This as you can imagine causes many arguments.
            Also I have not and will not give up on the little guy. I really do hope that he comes around one day, but his father has never changed. Oh well if he is still a turn in a few years I will have to give him the Bobbitt treatment. It will be my contribution to cleaning the gene pool. Oh yeah and he has been tested for allergies 
            I also think that using genes as an excuse is a poor one. Ultimately we are responsible for our actions. The rules are there for a reason.
            I do think that there may well be kids out there with real ADHD but with the medical profession labelling all cases as such they have destroyed much of the publics trust in the system. Most people I know now say there is no such thing now. Which is sad as the ones who need the help will now be unlikely to get it owing to the fact there are a million others in line in front of them who are really just badly behaved. And yes that does come from a lack of parental control (Thanks to the do-gooders) and more worrying a lack of care from some parents. I constantly see young children out on the streets at night around two or three in the morning. I see the lack of respect in them as well. They just don’t seem to care about anyone or anything. The attention span has dwindled to nothing. And money is as water to a fish. The children of today have become the capitalist dream

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