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TIL that in 2005 The Journal of Clinical Investigation published an article titled "Tom Cruise is dangerous and irresponsible" because of "reckless" comments made by Cruise where he stated that psychiatry is a "quack" field and postpartum depression is pharmacologically untreatable.

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