I'm about to blow a gasket over Keith Ablow's "Psycho analysis" of Joe Biden [View all]

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Note that Fox News, who employs this pathetic excuse for a mental health practitioner, made "psycho analysis" two words. Ablow is not a psychoanalyst. He is a psychiatrist who is abusing the profession. And his horrifying misuse of his professional weight should get his license jerked.

He knows what he's doing. He says Biden showed signs of dementia or drunkenness during the debate. That kind of armchair diagnosis of anyone is unethical, unprofessional and dangerous. And it's, of course, not true. NOTHING in Biden's performance would indicate anything of the kind. I won't much go into differential diagnoses but essentially it means "Well, I guess that's possible though it could be a million other things too, or nothing". But people don't know that.

I could scream. Someone needs to take this idiot off the air before he does us all harm.


http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/10/15/1010861/fox-news-psychiatrist-biden-either-has-dementia-or-was-drunk-during-the-debate/