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To have been shocked at this article?

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AmIReadingThisCorrectly · 15/06/2015 18:38

NC for privacy in case I'm being silly and have genuinely read this wrongly.
A former schoolfriend who I guess is trying to "make it" as a journalist has written an article about the various benefits of some dietary supplements and it's been published. However it just doesn't sit right with me, especially a part where it quotes a professor as predicting that humans are in danger of becoming a "race of morons" and then saying that this prediction is in danger of coming true with the "spiral of neurological disorders such as depression" amongst others.
As a sufferer of this myself I may be being a bit sensitive but it seems to genuinely label people with mental illness/autism etc as "morons".
AIBU and reading this wrongly or is this offensive? There have been a few comments made and the magazine is strongly denying it. The schoolfriend is someone I've not spoken to for years but I wouldn't have said they felt that way about depression etc.

Link is here (hopefully!): www.frostmagazine.com/2015/06/theres-something-fishy-about-our-lives-leading-experts-detail-new-research-and-science-concerning-brain-health/

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AmIReadingThisCorrectly · 17/06/2015 18:19

Cate it was deleted from her FB page before I deleted her as a friend. Too little, too late for me though. The article has been edited and the "morons" part has been removed. I don't have an agenda against her at all, I was just disappointed that someone I remembered to be quite a nice person held (or was prepared to write about) such views against mental illness.

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