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Hoax alerts: Watch out for false info on Internet

These are updated notices about misinformation and fraud found on the Internet that may be relevant to MindFreedom members.

Page Hoax about suicide and "schizophrenia."
A participant on a Yahoo Internet group posted a hoax -- intentionally or not -- that MindFreedom is "associated" with an effort to help supply "techniques" to encourage suicide by people diagnosed as "schizophrenic." This is of course totally false, and is a hoax. Here is the truth.
Page An individual against our human rights, D. J. Jaffe, is circulating a rumor that MFI may be linked to "Scientology"
MindFreedom International is 100 percent independent, with no funding from or links to any government, corporation, drug company or religion. However, defenders of the mental health system have tried to say that all critics of the psychiatric system "must" be linked to Scientology, and their organization CCHR. A promoter of more forced psychiatric drugging, D. J. Jaffe, is circulating this rumor by Twitter, etc.
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Peter Lehmann, editor, author, psychiatric survivor activist

Peter Lehmann of Berlin, Germany serves as one of the MindFreedom International representatives with the United Nations, and is a long-term supporter of MindFreedom campaigns and activities. Peter is a psychiatric survivor who has worked passionately for decades in Germany, Europe and internationally with a variety of groups for significant change in the mental health system. Peter is editor and publisher of a variety of books challenging human rights violations in the mental health system and promoting alternatives. His most recent book (co-edited with Peter Stastny, MD) is called "Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry." This book provides chapters from 61 leaders in changing the mental health system, and is available in the MindFreedom Mad Market.

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