Editor:
In his Jan. 7 column, “Peer support, research and mental illness,” Hugh Macaulay wrote: “I would be wrong if I suggested that a given approach to research into mental illness could ever cause a guaranteed reduction in stigma …”
We are too swift to call our ignorance someone’s “stigma.”
It worked with rape for generations. Only late in the 20th century did empowered women unequivocally tell us to stop.
Must one say it again?
Harold A. Maio, Ft. Myers, Fla.
