A U.S. News and World Report commentator rightly raises questions about a much bally-hooed “blood test” that supposedly helps screen women who “might” eventually get post-partum depression.

Ya gotta love how psychiatry, unsatisfied with its failed struggles to develop tests that can identify mental illnesses, is increasingly resorting to developing tests that identify mental illnesses that might in future develop. But gee, wasn’t a fundamental tenet of scientific evidence supposed to be an ability to falsify a particular scientific claim? Yet how can anyone possibly prove false the claim that an illness might in future exist???

Commentator Deborah Kotz rightly raises alarm that certain states have made it illegal for doctors NOT to perform these dubious blood tests on pregnant women. But what’s particularly irritating (and CMM posted a comment on the article) is that then Kotz endorses a question and answer screening test which is even more bogus. CMM did the test, answering honestly, and studiously answering negatively any questions that hinted at possible violence, and guess what — we were still told we should see our doctor asap for possible post-partum depression. Apparently our blog is just one big call for help!