The ADHD juggernaut rolls on...

...and why science matters.

Where to start? The Hungarian-born American psychiatrist, Thomas Szasz had a very simple approach to mental disorder: it's all a hoax. The patients, he said, are all pretending to be ill or disabled while, by dishing out diagnoses and pills, psychiatrists are playing their part in an elaborate social game. They also have an extra role of locking up publ…