Saul: You and the APA have not exactly seen eye to eye. Why? Hoffer: In 950, I became Director of Psychiatric Research for Saskatchewan’s Department of Public Health. I was a founder of the Canadian Schizophre- nia Foundation, now the International Schizophrenia Foundation. My main objective was to research the cause of this disease and to find a better treat- ment. This is now called orthomolecular medicine, after Dr. Pauling published his seminal paper in Science in 968. After the American Psychiatric Association called my good friend and colleague, Humphry Osmond, and me before their Committee on Ethics because of what I had published, they effectively killed interest in the use of vitamins for treating mental illness. The APA bears major responsibility for preventing the introduction of a treatment which would have saved millions of patients from the ravages of chronic schizophrenia. Just as the APA was once captured by psycho- analysis, it is now captured by pharma- ceuticals. They are biased. No amount of evidence will persuade someone who is not listening.
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