tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post9222041845135687299..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: Scientistic Hate Mail - What You Get When You Replace The Creator's Endowment Of Moral Obligation With Artificial "Ethics" Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-9167076333460839542019-05-25T19:06:10.468-04:002019-05-25T19:06:10.468-04:00Eugenics was a science, until it wasn't. How m...Eugenics was a science, until it wasn't. How much harm did it do?<br /><br />Funny the mad scientist trope never attached to that.<br /><br />So it goes.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-85501173767027599022019-05-25T15:52:04.183-04:002019-05-25T15:52:04.183-04:00Ah, yes, the late Dr. Oliver Sacks, aka "The ...Ah, yes, the late Dr. Oliver Sacks, aka "The Doctor who mistook his patients for a literary career." I remember reading him being interviewed about one of his early books and decided I didn't need to read his books. I suspect in the future they're going to look as quaintly deluded as books about the bodily humors and mesmerism. Reading psychology in an intro course and later, looking into psychiatry were my intro to the shocking amount of pseudo-science that is accepted as valid science (only to fall into that boneyard of discontinued science) but which the law gives the power to destroy people. I remember retaining a naive and childlike faith in the hard sciences a lot longer, in biology it was Sociobiology and evo-psy which first disillusioned me about biology, then the antics of the cosmologists and the irresponsibility of all of those limbs in producing weapons, deadly chemicals, devastation that led me to realize they were all, at bottom, no more honest than the people doing them chose to make them. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-65672605334381391632019-05-25T12:07:18.704-04:002019-05-25T12:07:18.704-04:00Memory fails me, but the Dr. who grew so famous De...Memory fails me, but the Dr. who grew so famous DeNiro and Robin Williams made a movie of his effort to use drugs to treat a condition that worked spectacularly well...until it didn't. That always struck me as, not a breakthrough, but a failure, and raising real questions about drugs treating psychiatric/mental conditions.<br /><br />Not to mention all the side effects of such drugs, which indicated to me we were just swapping one problem for another.<br /><br />But hey, we're just meat bags of chemicals, right?Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com