Yale Psychiatrist Issues Diagnosis of "Psychotic" for Defending Constitutional Rights

Professor Dershowitz is correct in acknowledging that since the Goldwater debacle (when a number of psychiatrists foolishly offered "diagnoses" of Senator Goldwater) the APA have condemned psychiatrists making so-called diagnoses of people they have not seen personally as patients (in which case confidentiality requirements would require them to keep their mouths shut) and most defiitely not political figures, because the bias is so blatant. There is a fascinating field - psychohistory - I took a course on it many years ago - but the subjects are either long-dead humans or entities like countries and cultures. The woman psychiatrist should be condemned by the organization, but it is highly likely that she is quite disturbed herself for spouting such utter nonsense.

What a good student of the USSR! Refuseniks in the communist country were diagnosed as "mentally ill" if they criticized the regime. The strategy was take away the persons job, without one you become a vagabond and so an enemy of the state. After a show trial one was diagnosed as mentally ill and send to the gulag for years and years.
What a fine psychiatrist!

Why does the American Psychiatric Society or the AMA revoke this woman's degree; and have her booted out of Yale?
Should she not be prosecuted for her online diagnoses?

Alan
She's teaching America's young and ignorant. It's malpractice on more levels than just her specialty. She's the one with the Trump Derangement Syndrome. Pay attention America, this is what's teaching in almost every college in the USA. K through 12 is even worse. Nobodies watching the hen house, while the foxes rip the chickens apart. If we can't or won't hold our teachers accountable, then why waste a dime on education? It's really an indoctrination, and a very expensive one at that. God help us.

Dr. Lee's remote control diagnosis of Alan Dershowitz's "psychosis" sounds like a chapter out of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, where dissidents in the Soviet Union were tossed into the booby hatch for differences with government policies. There was a certain internal logic to such intimidation, in the sense that anyone who defies tyranny is in for a peck of trouble, and may lack the essential quality of self-preservation common to all living things.

Tyrants rely on such twisted logic.

In the U.S. however, where we are still more-or-less free to think and speak for ourselves, Dr. Lee's suggestion is a lurch towards tyranny. Mr. Dershowitz is right to call her bluff, and he's performing a public service for more timid souls, as well.

Surely there needs to be an investigation into how people like Mrs Lee are appointed. There are too many of them in all walks of public life for it to be a coincidence.

Regarding mental illness, IMHO, Dr. Bandy Lee needs to look in the mirror! And Yale? Well there is one simple question: Why is she still on Yale's faculty? Such a waste of monies!

I had a couple of psychology professors in college who exhibited symptoms of every schism that they taught about. She appears to be no exception.

Amazing how people like that use a diagnosis as an argument instead of dialogue. They try to insulate themselves with an "I am better then you" and arrogance. It's like spitting without reason. They have no real argument so that is the only thing that works for them.

Please sue her for defamation and slander.

Just like the USSR used to do -- diagnose anyone you disagree with as "mentally ill". Khrushchev predicted that the West would defeat itself from within, and he was right.

Well said!! Dr Lee has clearly exposed herself for who she is not: a professional.

This also is demeaning to the mentally ill, it suggests that anyone who does has a diagnosis of a psychotic disorder can just be dismissed. I myself have schizophrenia - does that mean I shouldn't be allowed to vote? Or that I can't have legitimate views?

Liberal indoctrination by far left college professors in our country's post secondary educational institutions has been a large factor in many of our society's ails for a long time. This was rampant even when I was in college 40 plus years ago.

All universities make occasional mistakes in awarding degrees. "Doctor" Lee is obviously one of Yale's major mistakes. I earned my doctorate in Experimental and Clinical Psychology in Switzerland and am qualified to give a valid assessment of Lee's qualifications. She's an embarrassment to the profession.

It was this view of mental problems that the USSR used to imprison people who spoke out against the regime.

It appears Yale medical school is OK with doctors practicing Stalinist medicine like this. She has been spouting off in this fashion for a long time and still has a job, still has a Connecticut medical license

In many states, it is both unethical and illegal to prescribe for a patient you have not seen and examined. It may also be held that making a public statement concerning a diagnosis of a specific person may constitute a breach of the HIPAA Act even if that person is a public figure. If she were a member of my staff, she would have a lot of explaining to do.

Anyone who is so anxious to take away our freedoms and liberties is a danger to society and themselves and needs to be restrained for life.

Geun-Young Lee, her grandfather and a South Korean physician who she says inspired her with a belief that practicing medicine also involves social responsibility, would be disappointed that his granddaughter has chosen IRRESPONSIBILITY!

Here's your nickel, Lucy. Now go away.

Its stuff like this that gives me nightmares regarding the "red flag" laws that are cropping up all over the country, in the guise of "public safety". I'm sure this supposed psychiatrist isn't the only one who totally disregards their profession and flippantly labels people who don't share their political ideology. She should be censored at minimal and probably have her professional license and credentials removed.

Just think how much money she's extracted from people over the years,simply by talking through her hat and messing people up.

Dr. Lee is a clear case of what is wrong with our country and the world in general,,,,, too many people educated beyond their intelligence.

Unfortunately Dr Lee reveals her own confirmation bias and excels in advancing the argument of one who is psychologically impaired.
Put her in the bin of irrelevant things and incompetent health professionals who allow their critical faculties to be willingly impaired to suit and support their invalid hypothesis.
I believe Lenin called them useful idiots.

Dr Lee has blotted her copybook to the degree that she has nullified any personal and professional credibility she may ever have had.
Dr John Nemesh
BSc, MB;BS
Australia

This is what the Soviets did to dissenters. The left is a grave danger to America.

It could be that Dr Lee may need help.

Hey Mr. Dershowitz, if young Mr. Sandman won the suit with CNN for trying to ruin his life; suing Dr. Lee should be so much low-hanging fruit for a defamation or libel suit.

The danger here is the psychiatric profession has gained so much power, because we have allowed the weight of their opinions to be the authority in dealing with a persons mental condition. Knowing there are people like Dr. Lee who make their personal bias and corrupt thinking into a "professional" diagnosis. And there is always the possibility that on her word alone many will see her opinions as legitimate and correct; which I'm sure happens on a daily basis by other psycho-professionals in our courts system.

Maybe Dr. Lee should start her own television reality show called "Celebrity Diagnosis". Or she can be a guest of a psychic-network TV programs and analyze the mental condition of people she never met. Oh wait, that's what she already does for free.

Distance psychological analysis has gone on for at least 100 years if not more. The Allies had a full and mostly complete profile of Hitler and his henchman early in the war. Without every meeting or interviewing them.

Dr. Bandy Lee resorts to the proven tactic used in days of the Soviet "Evil Empire." When you voiced opposing points of view, you would be treated with psychotropic drugs, declared to be mentally ill, and shipped off to a gulag.
She barely stops before making the third recommendation.

What a dangerous doctor, calling people she does not know or seen in a professional environment names, simply because they have different political views. She needs to lose her medical license.

I'm glad she wasn't the court appointed shrink for Charles Manson...!

I might advise making a complaint to whatever governing board has jurisdiction, but people don't have that much respect for psychiatry anymore anyway, largely because of this sort of nonsense.
I do want to make one point though. I've noticed that a certain group uses one of two ways of discrediting opponents. In one, they find some absurd claim from whatever fringe group and try to suggest (by 'fact-checks' etc) that all their opponents believe this nonsense. The other type of smear is the kind we're seeing here -- and what's important about it is that they're not selecting Prof. Dershowitz for being "psychotic", but for being potentially effective; for being reasonable, well-informed and erudite -- in short, for NOT being psychotic. You might be flattered.

Anyone who has worked in the mental health profession is well aware of the fact the overwhelming majority of psychiatrists are those most in need of mental health counseling. Their attempts to diagnose and direct others is a thinly veiled attempt to escape addressing their own mental deficiencies and, most often, those of their dysfunctional family members.

Three generations of Bolshevik domination of Education; Media; Popular Culture---and these are the results, from the "best and brightest" (a Yale Professor). Brainwashed pretty much from birth by this inundation, they are beyond redeeming.

As long as we allow a Marxist Culture all around us, they will breed faster than they can be countered, as Professor Dershowitz is attempting to do here.

Get to the heart of the problem, or eventually we will be overwhelmed by the Bolshevik Tsunami.

Logical when you remember that most psychiatrists go into the "profession" because they are seeking a cure for their own mental illness.
It has only been in the last decade or so they decided that THEY were sane, the rest of us were INSANE.
This is the same group who insists that a man can give birth, have a period etc.
It all goes back decades when the ACLU forced the government to close the mental institutions.

How does one engage in a "reasoned dialogue" with someone who is unreasonable, who simply calls those he disagrees with as "crooked", "shifty", "crazy", and so on, ad infinitum?

I'd appreciate a reasoned answer to that question.

Dershowitz should sue her for slander, libel, defamation of character, and violation of professional ethics.

I think that Alan has to finally admit that he has been on the wrong side of the political spectrum for a long time. Democratics represent and have for the last 40 years the ridiculous side of politics, Ronald Regan said, "I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The party left me..." I feel the same way, now it time for Alan to realize the same thing...

JIM

Clean House! Help your local GOP Congressional candidates in 2020. There's work to do.

Late 1800's psychiatrists opened pandora's box. Moral and ethical concerns where the province of a community. Keeping members in a morally an ethically sound environment to a large extent. Psychiatry removed ethic and moral judgment and replaced it with emotionally excused behaviors. Therefore any rational moral or ethical behavior is found to be irrational and controlling in nature. It's the loons in charge of the looney bin. No offence to actual loons intended.

One who lies down with dogs, gets up with fleas. Having said that, it is not a stretch to for Professor D to say to Dr. Lee, "I know you are but, what am I?"

Seriously, we should start laughing at them. They are Hillaryous and should not be taken seriously.

The repeated failure of this alleged "Doctor" to recognize and abide by the Ethical Standards of her Vocation [I won't dignify her actions by labeling them as professional] should subject her to having her degrees and titles stripped at a minimum, and a more fitting remedy would be to bar her, for life, from practicing anything related to Psychology or Psychiatry, on penalty of fine and incarceration, or making any public utterance related to the fields.

Dr. Lee isn't using her training and expertise in psychiatry to make her "diagnoses." She is reacting emotionally to political views that oppose her own while using her credentials to validate her irrational opinions and to give them weight. This also feeds her need to be important and respected, which stems from feelings of insecurity and incompetence.

My diagnosis is that she suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and I prescribe tranquilizers and to listen to Rush Limbaugh each day for a year while held in restraints and isolation, lest she hurt herself or others. If she is still not rational after a year, her treatment should be extended indefinitely until her thought processes return to normal.

This is an attempted reply to the TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome that has been plaguing many Liberals for nearly 4 years now. Sorry, us Conservatives thought of this one first.

"Publicly offering 'professional opinions' or diagnoses in the absence of a psychiatric examination, is a violation of psychiatric ethics and the rules of the American Psychiatric Association."

It seems it is also a violation of HIPAA law. Health care providers cannot share any personal health information about patients to anyone (including the media) without their consent.

Dr. Lee is obviously attempting to increase her fame (and money) by acquiring new patients who are stricken with what Dr. Michael Savage identifies as "Liberal Mental Disorder." There are many potential customers, especially the 'WOKE" ones who hate themselves because they suppose that they have committed acts of micro-aggression.

Dr. Lee is the poster child for the progressive mentality's dependence on leftist demonizing Trump supporters as a group, purely for the shock effect. The problem is that psychology as a scientific field has been trashed repeatedly by people just as herself, hence no shock effect.

I was informed when first applying to study with the possibility of becoming a psychiatrist.
The information given was one of such that it was akin to those that trained as social workers.

I would not listen, I went on to train and within three years I found the highest rate of emotionally, mentally & physically - damaged people were from the said professions.

I decided to join the military and found that most of them were real people, which lived in the real world and would be willing to give all in service to the people that were in action with and to the country that they loved and served.

What I found emanating from psychiatrists and social workers was that they seemed to think that they knew it all, were selfish to a 'T'... Very much 'Yes People'.
If one questioned them or indeed their ideal of help they would marginalize, called out and ignore, they were treated with impunity.

Seems that we have a standard outlet of 'a left-wing nut case' - diagnosing and then displaying all the usual problems that slip from damaged thought/brain patterns ...

LISTINGS:

Selfish
Self Centred
'Yes People'
Frightened of being questioned
Treating everyone around them as suffering some mental health issue
Hated being questioned
Marginalize anyone that would find fault, or offering their point of view
Defiantly ignore you
Treat you with impunity
Accuse everyone that points out their weaknesses as being mental ill

I think you will find that this so-called -' Mental Health Worker' - is in serious in need of help, showing most if not all of the signs & symptoms.
A little disturbed seems an understatement in this case.

Thanks

This Yale professor should really have her license, if she has one, to practice psychiatry revoked. She is in violation, as Professor Dershowitz says, of several of the canons used in psychiatry and even of common sense. Her hatred of President Trump and his supporters and even those who just agree with him on an issue has caused her to make a very serious mistake. I would hope she will face repercussions for her culpability.

If Dr. Lee is proposing a "diagnosis impression" and not a "clinical diagnosis", this would be acceptable postulation. The former is just that, an impression. The latter is a diagnosis derived from a psychiatric diagnostic examination.

It was standard practice in the former Soviet Union, in Nazi Germany, and today in China, for "authorities" to "diagnose" political opponents as mentally ill and to incarcerate them and "treat" them with "experimental" procedures. Apparently there are some in some American universities today who wish to silence their critics by using similar tactics.

The Soviet Union used Psychiatry for political purposes, referring to dissidents as having "Sluggish Schizophrenia" and would institutionalize and medically treat such persons.
Religious activity was also regarded as a mental illness at times, as well as disagreement with writers such as Marx or with Lenin. If one had possession of non-Marxist literature, it was regarded as a form of mental illness requiring treatment. The Soviets did ban lobotomy as being inhumane, however.
After 1991, there was acknowledgement by the Russian Federation that the Soviet Union had used psychiatry for political purposes and victims were entitled to rehabilitation.
That a Yale Psychiatrist would utilize Psychiatry for political purposes is especially concerning, especially if she has teaching privileges in the Psychiatry teaching program in the medical School.
This would warrant review by the board overseeing credentialing of psychiatrists as well as the organization overseeing credentialing of medical schools for teaching privileges.

Making such accusations against a public person such as Dershowitz and the President might be exceptions, but probably should include the caveat that the psychiatrist has not actually examined the people she is making such allegations about and that it's personal opinion rather than an actual medical diagnosis. To actually put forth the commentary as medical opinion could possibly make the psychiatrist and the institution legally vulnerable to accusations of malpractice and even a complaint to the involved State Medical Board to review the actions of the concerned physician would be warranted, if the victims perceived they were treated in an unprofessional manner due to a breach of medical ethics.

Isn't it just the opposite?
Democrats are having trouble accepting they lost the election. The journalists and the media also aren't able to focus on other issues; they became compulsive regarding the impeachment idea.
You can't have a normal conversation with a vast majority of Democrats. They don't accept other opinions and for them any other different point of view is fascist, homophobic, Islamophobic, misogynistic, and now psychotic.

Dr Lee needs help -- she needs a psychiatrist, maybe a few.

Perhaps, "Dr." Lee would be more comfortable at Bejing University making her diagnosis of dissidents in China against Xi or N. Korea? I don't think she gets the Constitution and American liberties. We will never be a socialist country Dr. Lee... too many patriots.

I came to the USA looking for freedom and found it. 45 years later this freedom was taken away by the "liberals" and their black-shirt enforcers. For the first time I am afraid to express myself or put on a MAGA shirt or cap. But I will vote
for President Trump even though I am not registered as a Republican.

Dr Lee should rather consult her own doctor, rather than saying Trump and his supporters are mentally ill.

Please let me know if there is going to be a class action lawsuit against her.

Sounds like libel/slander per se to me. Sue her and file a complaint with the relevant professional body and the school.

As a physician I was very upset with Bardy Lee who politically abused psychiatric diagnosis as a political weapon to defame, demonize delegitimize Prof. Dershowitz. Criminal abuse of psychiatric claims to shut down opinions are well known from the days of USSR and beyond. International meetings, UN and American Psychiatric association all outlawed this practice. Political use of psychiatric assumptions is not only unethical but against the basic law "thou shalt not bear false witness" as Bandy Lee never had any contact with prof. Alan Dershowitz. Further, US Supreme Court did not allow "free speech" if it may incite actions which may harm people such as Prof. Dershowitz. Bandy Lee committed ethical, professional and legal crimes. Her license to practice medicine should be revoked, her tenure at Yale should be terminated and she should take anew the Board in Psychiatry.

I think you should sue her.

I had to laugh at the comments attributed to Dr. Lee. It amounts to the inmates of an asylum taking over and then calling all the mental health doctors nuts. Just maybe she's the one with the problems, but in the UK for the last three years we who voted to leave the UK in 2016 have been labelled racists, stupid and dumb -- being too stupid to know what we where voting for. But our election last moth was a big win for us leavers - not so stupid after all. I think it's the liberals who hate losing so much that they have become anti-democratic. It happened here in the UK and it's happening even more so in the US. Just my view.

This little Tweet storm comes from the campus Animal Farm that is completely disconnected from mainstream America. Tenure protection is a beautiful thing if you are part of the campus Swamp.

She is another "expert" who lives in a political bubble and follows the socialist line. Personal attacks are the order of the day and those, regardless of political party, that say anything that does not parallel their philosophy are considered a threat and are targeted. Facts, logic, common sense have no place in their world as they themselves are the truth.

I guess that Dr. Lee would consider most, if not all Canadians, as being mentally defective as well. For some strange reason, Canadians use the term "perfect" for just about anything. You buy something at the grocery and the cashier will say "perfect" or awesome. The same for a waitperson in a restaurant when you order your meal, "perfect". What makes doing such trivial things so perfect, I don't know. Maybe Dr. Lee can explain the psychosis that Canadians have for saying "perfect".

This is a political diagnosis, not a scientific, or professional one. It illustrates, more than anything else, the total failure, socialist politicization, and lack of any principle among those running today's education system.

Much of the "problem that faces our divided nation" that Dershowitz refers to is that the great majority of instructors, administrators, and government education bureaucracies are now socialist. They see their job as indoctrinating their charges in socialism, advancing its agenda, and protecting it from competition with any other sort of belief -- and without limit as to the lies and nonsense they will disseminate to do it. The socialists are insane -- no different from the jihadist Muslims in believing that their way is not just the right way, but the only way, and everyone must be forced to conform. Bandy Lee has been trained in this system, swallowed every bit of the propaganda, and become a part of it -- and is now passing the disease on to those who are exposed to her lectures and textbooks.

A troupe of practicing parapsychologists and clinical aromatherapists have come out and said any American Psychiatric Association member making a mental health diagnosis in absentia has a delusional belief in the power of their skills, and an abnormal take on ethics.

Bah, what do they know?

How very old school Soviet.

I love this piece by Dershowitz, whose material I always read regardless of the topic. He always makes "perfect" sense on any issue at hand. I too suffer from the "shared psychosis" of Trump supporters. Based on this affliction, I think I will apply for ADA protection, as Dershowitz suggests..... I think a permit so I can park my car in disabled-only parking spots.

Like the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union.

Mr. Dershowitz, I wanted to let you personally know that I agree with your position wholeheartedly on Dr. Bandy Lee, based on your writings and other articles that I have read. She is not alone in proffering supposedly an expert opinion in a general manner about those with whom they disagree. I am also in agreement with your opinion with regards to American citizens refusing to engage with those who disagree with them politically, but I would add that the social media, (eg. Facebook, Twitter and the like) provides the average person who subscribes to such a platform to espouse one's opinion without facing anyone who can respond in an informed manner. There are far too many people who have no expertise whatsoever offering their opinion, if one wants to call it that, on subjects on which they have no business commenting. I also applaud your efforts on defending President Trump in the media and when the times comes to defend him in the impeachment sham. I respect your opinion, sir, in spite of my business conservative leanings.

Professor Dershowitz and I are lawyers, married and have two other shared commonalities, we've supported Donald Trump's constitutional rights, and neither one of us voted for the president. Neither of us has met the "good" doctor. He and I are basically worlds apart otherwise. If he suffers from "psychosis", then I do also. I am proud to share that distinction.

Mr. Alan Dershowitz in his usual very clear and clever manner argues (and wins!) his case.

Yale Psychiatrist Dr. Bandy Lee's unsubstantiated diagnosis that President Trump and most of his supporters suffer from a shared psychosis epitomizes the radical left's extreme alienation from reality and its slavish devotion to elevating feelings above facts. I realize that Dr. Lee and like-minded leftists thoroughly despise the president and his supporters but her absurd mental illness claim about Republicans reeks of desperation and reveals the full extent of the intellectual bankruptcy of the left.

Where do these dim bulbs come from, and why do universities keep them on staff? Sad part is that Yale hierarchy more than likely agrees with her absurd stance.

College degrees don't automatically mean that the holders of those degrees are any more intelligent than an ordinary person with no degrees, but who has COMMON SENSE.

One is tempted to conclude that she is the one who is the sicko but that would be playing the game by her unethical rules.

Reading this, I am getting more and more worried as to whats happening to our western civilization. Is this liberal leftist movement going to infect enough of us as to bring us all down? Can America fall from this disease?
Tell me that is is just politics and it will pass please. There has to be a G-D up there that will protect us from ourselves.

Dr. Lee is auditioning for Director, New Lubyanka Institute, Washington, DC. She will "help" us conservatives to see the wonderful life of Socialism, when "they take over" the reins of the government.

As much as those two, statesmen Netanyahu an Trump are different, they have similar opponents and political rivals interested to topple at any cost i.e. "liberal", pro-Islamist defeatists calling themselves "camp of peace and progress," just as the Soviet Bolsheviks were. Both do not choose the means.
"Don't be afraid of them. Don't trust them. Fight them back" - Three rules of the Gulag.

This is how the USSR worked. People who were troublesome to the authorities were sent to mental hospitals or worse, as they were deemed to be insane to object to such a wonderful ideology

Why does not the profession call out and censure such behavior?

Forensic psychiatry is still in an embryonic stage of development. The highly discursive point where psychology and physics merge (entropy) will have a much broader application than the current model's propositions.

Isn't it time to drag these idiots into court? "You can smell the Trump supporters in Walmart" is another one. Free speech is a good thing but this is absolutely ridiculous. File charges and demand they take away her license.

Very dangerous!
Isn't that the sort of thing which used to happen in the former USSR? You disagree with the regime, therefore, you have mental problems!
Off to the asylum with you and throw away the key!

Sounds as though Dr Lee would have fitted into the Soviet system of psychiatry very comfortably, incarcerating dissidents in mental hospitals.

These pseudo-psychiatrists did the same thing when Barry Goldwater ran for president.

Dr Bandy Lee: Don't take her courses.
Thanks Alan.

Who can add anything to Professor Dershowitz's comments? He is so right; it makes me ashamed to be a descendant of the founder of the institution. A constitution founded on Christian principles as a seminary searching for truth, not creating it out of ones own perverse ego. The problem for her is everything Lee has written is not even psychiatry, it's fiction. She chose the wrong field. She should have become an English Professor. Instead she is proving that psychiatry is not a science.

The DM 5 is sham, as is the entire "profession" of psychiatry.

Just because someone has a degree doesn't mean they are ethical or sane.

In the land of litigation psychiatry can be a dangerous tool. At least that's what my imaginary friend tells me, and he's never been wrong.

A sane, compelling piece dealing with shared delusions among Maoist liberals. Perhaps Dr. Lee might take this diagnosis onboard.

Bandy Lee's diagnoses are political science, not behavioral science. It is the same deceitful political perspective that views jihadi terrorism as mental illness. Radical leftists, like Bandy Lee, do not identify different ideologies or opinions - they identify ANY opposing view as mental illness. It is an old trick - the Soviets sent their political prisoners to mental hospitals or the Gulag too. Every sphere of American life, including the mental health field, was politicized under Obama's leftist "hope and change" movement, whose hope was to change America from a Constitutional Republic with a capitalist infrastructure into a socialist state.

The Left has decided that any political opponent challenging their ideological worldview is unhinged and unfit for office. The Gulag of the Left should alarm any patriotic American who understands the dangers of politicizing oppositional speech to mean unhinged speech. The Leftist attempt to install itself as the Orwellian Ministry of Truth must be vehemently opposed - including the outrageous political diagnoses of the unethical Bandy Lee and her posse at the National Coalition of Concerned Mental Health Experts.

And so it has come to pass that the Orwellian face of the future under a Democratic governance body appears.
Its probably a mix of Huxley and Orwell that is unfolding. Life can change so quickly. Caution and alarm bells ring loudly.

Professor Dershowitz is both a distinguished jurist and practice lawyer who has been targeted for character assassination because of his continual insistence upon defending the rule of law, the rights of the accused, and the US Constitution. His concern to speak the truth rather than what is acceptable to current political fashion is in the great tradition of American and western academic freedom, and he is a model for all those who work in universities, and who should be dedicated to the expansion of knowledge and the freedom of individual conscience.

Dr Lee is clearly in breach of her professional responsibilities as a psychiatrist and as a university academic, and should be barred from medical practice for gross misconduct and dismissed from her post at Yale for violation of academic ethics. She is guilty both of mispractice and mistepresentation of factual truth, which means she lacks competence to carry out the professional functions for which she is employed.

The woman must be suffering from a severe obsessive compulsory disorder.

I wouldn't worry about it, Alan. This woman is clearly a case of "too much psychiatry" which has twisted her brain. Or as Shakespeare put it - "much learning hath made thee mad".

There are two camps in the US.
One is secular, the other is believers in life after death.
They continue to be polarised against each other on that basis.

I have never met Dr Lee and I know it's unethical but I would venture to say that she's really quite barmy!

Gosh! I never realised that people have so much store in the thoughts and opinions of other people who pass opinions on other people. I am so confused by all this that I probably need annualising this time next year.

Sadly, this doctor seems to be suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome if not then she must possessed by an ideological demon. Wait a minute... They are exactly the same thing!

There's a lesson here - don't bandy words with Dr Bandy Lee.