New Liberal Conspiracy Theory Provides Holiday Entertainment

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Does Ritalin Create Conservative Children?







Need a cure for the holiday news cycle doldrums? How about a fresh conspiracy theory from our "progressive" friends?

Just in time to cure the boredom is this gem from libtalker Thom Hartmann, who decided to take a much-discussed story connecting brain thickness with political leanings and RUN right off the edge of the cliff.

Of course, who are we to critique Hartmann's grasp of genetics, medicine and child development (he's written on the subject before, check your local New Age bookstore)? It seems perfectly reasonable to believe Ritalin is part of some Big Pharma plot to create a rabid army of future conservatives:

THOM HARTMANN (Wednesday 29 Dec 2010 - hour one - 20:11): This dopamine receptor gene - the DR4 gene - they've identified as being the liberal gene. That's the gene that in my book The Edison Gene, I identified as being the Thomas Edison gene. And that neuroscientists who work on Attention Deficit Disorder identify as the ADD gene. Cause it affects levels of dopamine in the brain.

Low dopamine in the brain, you have creativity and you have ADD, and according to this most recent study you have liberalism, and they try to medicate that out of kids by goosing up their dopamine levels with a drug called Ritalin. Are we turning our children into conservatives by medicating them?

Hey Thom, got any more of these clever zingers? It's the perfect cure for our boredom.