Scientists will come up with anything to keep that government money flowin’ ? and why not? They’ve got the ultimate sucker for audacious quackery: Congress. And now the National Institute of Mental Health has just found 16 million more Americans to serve!
Yes, government funded science has now upgraded the temper tantrum to “Intermittent Explosive Disorder.”
You have to hand it to the researchers behind this: it’s exceptionally clever, even down to the pun in its acronym, IED (you know, a roadside bomb).
I’m also appreciative of their discovery that road rage disorder “typically first appears in adolescence.” Say, I’ll bet there could be link between IED and the receipt of a driver’s permit or license. Give me $200 million and I’ll poll a few people for proof.
