"Exercise Found Effective Against Depression"

[Carrol Cox]

One further note.

If supposedly well educated people with no medical training were wrting
letters and spreading information to the effect that peach pits were a
better treatment for cancer than any of the conventional treatments, and
if cancer patients were believing that and dying as a result, it would
be hard to forgive these people.

There are lots of things in which ignorance is excusable. There are many
things in which ignorance accompanied by claim to knowledge is
excusable. Medical treatment is not one of those 'things." Those who
spread fear about the treatment of cancer or depression are simply
criminals. There is no excuse for speaking ignorance in this case. I
know too many people who have suffered for too many years because they
have been persuaded by people like Reese and Catherine that they should
avoid professional treatment. Reese and Catherine, if they have spread
their nonsense in other areas than lbo have almost certainly been
personally responsible for real human misery.

There is no reason that anyone should know much about depression. There
is every reason why those who don't know much about medicine should
avoid poisoning the ill with their ignorance.

Carrol