Educators and parents are sometimes blamed for using medications like Ritalin to make overactive kids compliant and faulted for their inability to control their children without chemical assistance. An article in The New Republic by debunker extraordinaire Michael Fumento argues that the critics are wrong and the much-maligned Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a real, treatable disorder. Fumento rebuts common myths about ADHD, such as the idea that it is part of a feminist conspiracy to make little boys more like little girls, and that it is part of an effort of public schools to warehouse docile kids rather than to discipline and teach them.
"Trick Question," by Michael Fumento, The New Republic, February 3, 2003 (free registration required)