If you search
the Internet for information on
alcoholism,
amino acids,
autism, or many other
things that start with A, you'll find various
scholarly,
personal, and
commercial offerings to browse. Inevitably, you will find
conflicting data. Different
authorities define
autism by different
criteria. There are
at least 20 and maybe as many as 29 different
amino acids in
the food we eat.
Alcoholics Anonymous is "
the most effective" treatment program for alcoholism, or maybe it just
fosters more dependence on something other than
alcohol.
The experts do not agree. If I were a little more
paranoid, I'd suspect the
pharmaceutical,
healthcare and
insurance, and
mental health industries have a
self-perpetuation agenda, whereby they
disinform the public and
pollute their own
research in order to perpetuate their own
product cycles and
authority.
I'm not that paranoid. I think The Expert Factor is combined
bad reporting,
amateur misinformation, and
good science leading to
faulty conclusions. Of course, there's the
hype factor, but it's not too hard to spot
an "expert" with a product to sell.