There's a crew of Dr. John Campbell fans who read the forum. For those who don't know, he's a retired nurse educator with a gift for explaining complex things clearly. He has been providing nearly daily updates on the COVID situation and much else. By choosing his words carefully and bolstering himself with the latest research, he was able to continuing speaking on the internet at a time when so many were being silenced. His recent videos have also covered monkeypox, polio, and the like.

Here's an interesting one. Scientific research has just blown out the water the theory of depression that everybody accepted for the past quarter-century. The idea was that a deficit of a neurotransmitter called serotonin diminished the passages of signals across the synapses of the brain. The treatment is a pharmaceutical known as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibiter that concentrates the effect of serotonin by slowing its reabsorption after a signal transmission.

Some of you are probably taking these drugs to combat depression--not a swipe at the Claret forwards. Here's the thing: By five different lines of evidence, new research has shown that people with depression do NOT have too little serotonin. So, a bust for the theory. We are back to "nobody knows what causes depression."

Will it be a bust for a pharmaceutical industry that has made billions marketing these drugs?