| > This makes no sense whatsoever. Correlation doesn't imply causation, thus correlation by itself cannot be considered evidence of anything. Correlation is evidence that there may be causation and thus further investigation to find it might be fruitful. A lack of correlation is evidence that there is not causation. This isn't hard and it makes perfect sense. > But it doesn't provide an ounce of testable evidence about whether these people were actually using psychiatric drugs or not HIPPA forbids any such data collection for small cohorts. There aren't going to be medical sources, newspaper and similar accounts are the best we can get on whether or not a murderer in the relatively small class of school boy shooters is on psychiatric medications. > It took me a couple minutes to find a legitimate paper about this topic [0] I’m well aware that most mass shooters are just run of the mill thugs without any especial psychiatric pathology other than low sympathy for their victims, which isn’t something that we treat pharmaceutically. Sadly, you have lost the thread. That includes the urban career criminals, who we are are very specifically not discussing. The topic is school boy murderers. > something you could have done yourself if you weren't so set in dialectic buffoonery and intellectual dishonesty. You're telling on yourself buddy. > Let me know if my sources aren't up to your "standards", since you prefer to get your quotes from popular magazines. Perhaps you should try People next time. Snark is one of the best indicators of an insecure midwit. Anyhow thanks for proving my point that you're discussing this entirely in bad faith. You may go now. |