UndertheOcean
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Thu Mar-18-10 12:42 PM
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Dysaethesia Aethiopica : This passed as science in the 19th century , wow |
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Edited on Thu Mar-18-10 12:42 PM by UndertheOcean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysaethesia_aethiopica"In psychiatry,<1> dysaethesia aethiopica was an alleged mental illness described by American physician Samuel A. Cartwright in 1851, which proposed a theory for the cause of laziness among slaves..... "
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Thu Mar-18-10 12:48 PM
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1. Not sure how far we've actually progressed since the 19th century |
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Edited on Thu Mar-18-10 12:49 PM by ck4829
Any behaviors that violate norms and customs will still get a person diagnosed with having some sort of mental illness.
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UndertheOcean
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Thu Mar-18-10 03:56 PM
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3. I am not quite sure either |
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Thu Mar-18-10 12:51 PM
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2. Thankfully, science is self-correcting... |
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and garbage is refuted as knowledge increases.
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Thu Mar-18-10 04:19 PM
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4. I can't wait until "Science" corrects it's stupid attitude to spirit. |
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Thu Mar-18-10 04:21 PM
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5. See, this is the difference between science and woo woo. |
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Edited on Thu Mar-18-10 04:22 PM by HiFructosePronSyrup
Science corrects its mistakes.
Woo woo keeps making the same ones for thousands of years.
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Thu Mar-18-10 07:26 PM
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16. because science only treats the symptoms, woo woo treats the source |
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Thu Mar-18-10 04:21 PM
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UndertheOcean
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Thu Mar-18-10 04:37 PM
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7. *double facepalm , on both cheeks* |
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Thu Mar-18-10 05:53 PM
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9. Keep up those facepalms kids, hopefully they'll wake you up |
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Thu Mar-18-10 06:17 PM
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anigbrowl
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Thu Mar-18-10 07:20 PM
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15. Science eagerly awaits your demonstration of its existence |
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I have yet to hear what distinguishes this elusive quality from boring old consciousness.
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Thu Mar-18-10 07:27 PM
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17. I'm pretty sure that scientists refuted this one. nt |
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Thu Mar-18-10 04:45 PM
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8. Being transgendered is still considered a mental illness, "Gender Identity Disorder" |
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The misogynistic "Hysterical Woman" diagnosis still survives in the form of Histrionic and Borderline Personality Disorders. Being introverted is pathologized into "Schizoid Personality Disorder", while being a crank gets one diagnosed with "Schizotypal Personality Disorder".
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That Is Quite Enough
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Thu Mar-18-10 06:00 PM
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10. Check out the related page about Drapetomania... |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrapetomaniaNow why would a slave want to run away from their master? It just doesn't make any sense!
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Thu Mar-18-10 06:14 PM
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11. Really want to shake your head over it all? |
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The late Stephen Jay Gould wrote a scholarly book "The Mismeasure of Man" which passed into a certain popularity among lay audiences. It's kind of dense, but mostly accessible. He starts the book off with a quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes from a case where a woman was involuntarily sterilized. Holmes, writing for the court majority, reviewed the woman's family history, and found that the state had a compelling public interest reason for sterilizing her as a congenital imbecile (a scientific term of art) whose offspring would only burden, and not help society. Holmes' dictum that, "three generations of imbeciles are enough" became a bit of a cause celebre.
Gould details any number of episodes from the 20th century in the book. I think it's out of print, and as I say, it's not written for a mass audience, but if you're really looking to be appalled . . .
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Thu Mar-18-10 07:07 PM
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13. What's that disorder where people work hard to buy useless crap like cars? |
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Consumerism?
Man, that's a deadly one.
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Thu Mar-18-10 07:16 PM
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14. If you'll excuse me being pernickety... |
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...it didn't 'pass as science' insofar as it never got near a medical journal. Rather, the daft claims were published in a popular Southern business magazine. It reminds me of the outright nonsense that sometimes appears on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal (as opposed to opinions that I merely disagree with).
Still, the fact that it got published by anyone at all is truly pathetic.
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