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Can this really be verified?

Question answered by FreeZone in Scientology

Anonymous asked this question on 9/18/2000:

Hey, unlike Scientology, is it really true that more people have died in the hands of psychiatrists than all the people killed in all the wars America has been in combined?

FreeZone gave this response on 9/19/2000:

It wouldn't surprise me a bit if that was actually true. Most people do die 'in the hands of' physicians, it doesn't follow that physicians cause their death. You have to watch out for those phony statistics which seem to make you right and actually mean nothing at all.

From very early in this country's history up to about 1950, one of the major causes of death and possibly the single largest cause of long-term hospitalization in the US was paresis (advanced syphilis), which caused insanity invariably followed by death. Immense numbers of people died 'in the hands of' psychiatrists, but they were killed by syphilis, not psychiatry.

Incidentally, if CoS believes that psychiatry doews so much harm, why doesn't it offer practical solutions in the form of treatment instead of just attacks. Can it be that they're really more interested in mocking up an enemy to blame for their failings than they are in really solving any problems?

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