could not found a family." (*Sigmund Freud: Life and
Work*, vol. 1, p. 67 [Brit. ed.])
Freud does not suggest anti-Semitism played any role in his deciding to
change his career, and nor to biographers Ernest Jones, Ronald Clark or
Peter Gay, so I'm left wondering where Chris got hi
groups keep a low profile to avoid persecution and intimidation, just
because they want to live free of official government interference. […]
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Chinese-Christians-banned-from-attending-Protestant-World-Congress-19742.html
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priority for the concept itself
(though not the name that he coined) should go to the British
anthropologist Ernest Crawley.
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k, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Cassandra L. Pinnock, Noretta Koertge,
Daphne Patai, Ellen R. Klein. My favourite chapter heading originating
from these authors is "Why Feminist Epistemology Isn't" (Janet
Radcliffe Richards, in *The Flight From Science and Reason*, eds. P.
Gross, N.
you mean, funny? Funny peculiar or funny ha-ha?
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/funny_ha-ha
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But if we see a religious tradition as a record of a culture’s ongoing
attempts to cope with fear and hope, life and death, gain and loss,
then it becomes a candidate for respect, just as much as the other
poetry and songs of our ancestors."
http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/~
for one minute that God wouldn't get me out of there,'
said Mario Sepulveda when he emerged from the mine this morning."
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/7027154-chilean-miners-families-thank-god-for-rescue-prayers-for-miracle
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e difference between
capitalism and socialism is that in a capitalist society man exploits
man, whereas under socialism it's the other way round.
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mingly so,
but they don't argue that other factors don't play some role, and of
course more in the case of some people than others, according to their
social/environmental circumstances.
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ly, social circles) within which they function. As indicated
above, I hope that experience has largely immunised me against such a
restriction on one's critical faculties.
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guments.
Rick Froman writes:
>Well, when I read the word "appreciation" in the first
>line of Allen's post, I wondered if he had recognized
>the sarcasm in my remarks and returned with his own.
Sorry about that, Rick. But as you suggest, an outsider to the US scene
would
look at the reasons why (predominantly)
many on the Left might fear finding that genetic predispositions play a
substantial role in human behaviour. (You could start with Oliver
James. :-) )
Allen Esterson
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lming psychological distress that often
comes with Alzheimer’s Disease. Which is nice, given that doctors,
nurses, families and other caregivers have constantly struggled with
this, often to the point of desperation and exhaustion. So, it’s good
that he’s got it all sorted out.
"Oh wait
For greater clarity, I should have added to my reference to "Einstein's
epoch-making 1905 special relativity paper, which takes as a
fundamental premise the constancy of the speed of light in vacuo":
"regardless of the motion of the observer".
Allen Esterson
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g a logical sequence
must be resisted... [...] The basic achievement of Einstein's theory...
was that at the cost of sacrificing all these [traditional
conceptions], it gave us a new unity in the understanding of nature"
(Holton, 1988, p. 347).
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e of Freud's
lesser known case histories. See:
http://www.esterson.org/Mirage_acknowledgement_of_error.htm
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From: Joan Warmbold
Subject:
tify Freud's nomination in 1897 for promotion from Assistant
Professor to Associate Professor at the University of Vienna, see Frank
Sulloway's *Freud: Biologist of the Mind* (1979, p. 463). (He was
eventually promoted in 1902.)
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ts*, 1965)
And for Frederick Crews taking on all comers on psychoanalysis in a
remarkable tour de force:
F. Crews (ed), *The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute*, A New York
Review book, 1995.
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allenester...
case history:
Stanley Fish: "The Primal Scene of Persuasion", in *Unauthorized
Freud*, ed. F. Crews (1998), pp. 186-199. Fish observes in relation to
Freud's extraordinary gift for persuasive writing: "Although Freud will
repeatedly urge us… to take our 'independent share
s subject is so great
that you may easily be fooled…" (But following more such comments, he
added: "All this, of course, doesn't detract from Freud's extraordinary
scientific achievement" – a view that few of the philosophers at the
above-cited NYU seminar would
o other instances that I'm sure some
TIPSters could suggest).
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uestion from "popular" accounts of the work rather
than from reading the original books or articles. (For instance, the
writings of Frank Cioffi, Henri Ellenberger, Frank Sulloway, Peter
Swales, Richard Webster and -- last but certainly not least -- Malcolm
Macmillan.)
Allen Esterson
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lurb goes on to challenge the above
"consolation" view:
"Only a few writers [at that time, 1993] have heretofore intimated the
possibility that's Freud's accounts of his cases are systematically and
self-servingly untruthful, but now Allen Esterson picks up the trail,
he Wolf Man case history, including the invention of a key
character in a supposed recovered "memory" (conveniently occurring
after four years of analysis) that enabled him to find the "solution"
to the analysis.
http://tinyurl.com/25nrvc
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ringing a
whole new range of applications..."
Who said romance is dead?
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From: "Mike Palij"
To: &quo
c notions of
validation, I request from Michael what evidence he has that those who
left TIPS around that time did so on the specific grounds that they
were furious that he posted on African origins of psychology.
Allen Esterson
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rs who followed the discussion of the facts and myths about
the Tuskagee study on TIPS in 2007 should find Susan Reverby's "More
Than Fact and Fiction" (2001) an interesting read:
http://www.wellesley.edu/WomenSt/MoreThanFactAndFiction.pdf
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g like the UK, an appreciable proportion of Jews are
atheist/agnostic -- as is the newly elected leader of the UK Labour
Party, Ed Miliband:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-dawn-of-generation-ed-2092566.html
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es between Louise Patten and Sally Neillson, a
great-granddaughter of the steersman.
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Re: [tips] I knew it! Psychology sunk the Titan
Update on the great Titanic controversy:
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/author-claims-steering-error-sank-the-titanic/
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ptain to
go “slow ahead” – he arrived on the bridge when the engines were
stopped.
Lady Patten’s grandfather was a brave man but the way he loaded
lifeboats, with several less than half full, was something he was
rightly sheepish about, and would have been glad of a story to divert
blame.
Nich
as part of the (highly dubious) 'evidence' for
this, such as his "extreme distaste for authority": "The fact that
Einstein had a very poor memory for his own childhood demonstrates a
subconscious attempt to eradicate a personal history." (Interestingly,
a reference on
ds -- though as these things go
nowadays, a contention repeated rapidly becomes a 'fact'.
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statement to be taken literally.
My recollection of the context of the remark is that the contention
that it was a sarcastic putdown of Hooke is nothing more than an
interpretation of Newtons's words -- though as these things go
nowadays, a contention repeated rapidly becomes a 'fact
s life) to discover a unified field theory than on any other
area of physics, but I very much doubt he would have said that these
efforts constituted his greatest work.
Note I'm not saying that Louis is mistaken, only asking for evidence
from Newton himself.
Allen Esterson
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Mike Palij wrote:
>Perhaps Allen Esterson can comment on one of Raju's claims
>such as the following; quoting from the Wikipedia entry:
|Raju built on E.T. Whittaker's beliefs that Albert Einstein's theories
|of special and general relativity built on the earlier work of H
plies references for a
particular assertion that they necessarily confirm that assertion. Very
few people are going to take the trouble to check the actual reference,
so instances like the above are likely to go undetected (as we see from
Dawkins' recycling of the Aveling story).
Allen Es
John Serafin wrote:
>Personal aside...ignore if not interested. My grandparents all
>emigrated from Poland to the US. They all ended up in an
>area just west of Detroit. My dad's parents lived on a street
>that happened to go by the name of Kopernik. As a kid, I
>had no idea the significance of tha
‘apostates’ to break the taboo
that comes with renouncing Islam and religion, particularly given that
it is punishable by death in many countries…"
http://www.ex-muslim.org.uk/eng/pressreleases/press-pages/121298-AnnualReport.html
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t saying that the case would need to independently investigated
before any conclusions can be drawn.
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From: don allen
Subject:Auti
ims?
http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/132/8/2026.short
http://radiology.rsna.org/content/229/3/691.full
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argues for this being the *exclusive* cause of
violence and problems in society and within the person, and it is on
this very exclusivity that her fame is based.
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Southwark College, London
allen
ve
it is so very different in the States, in which case it would indicate
that the case of the Hitler documentary is highly specific to Hitler,
and shouldn't be generalised to suggest a virtual conspiracy to
suppress the notion itself.
e, both with individual patients and in the
case of historical figures. To cite just one example, in *Banished
Knowledge* she writes that one specific case "confirmed something I
have long suspected: A child's autism is a response to his environment
ome who remembered his father as a far milder
sort"
Does anyone have any information on this, preferably more reliable than
from the commentator on a "popular" documentary and the website "Famous
People".
Allen Esterson
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Southwark Co
azi carries obvious
implications that were simply not the case in respect of Heisenberg.
Nothing you have quoted from Powers adds anything of significance to
the discussion.
I've said all I want to say, so all I can add is, in the words of the
adage, keep digging.
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anticipated, and when I
read it at the time (2002) it did not seem to me to add anything that
Bohr hadn't expressed publicly before concerning the 1941 meeting with
Heisenberg as he recalled it.
There's an admirably balanced introduction to the letter (and several
drafts), on the N
channels to Himmler, and feared that a letter
sent through normal channels would probably never have arrived. This is
where his mother's chance acquaintanceship with Himmler's mother comes
in, as his mother agreed to visit Himmler's mother and request she pass
the lette
told in 1988 was
untrue.
The story that Freud wrote the words of "praise" about the Gestapo has,
of course, long been reported as historical fact. This recalls to mind
the wise words of the Einstein scholar John Stachel: "Bare assertions,
particularly by interested parties, do
"suspicious".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/diana/1584297/Diana-inquest-William-and-Harry-welcome-verdict-after-jury-blames-paparazzi-and-Paul.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1584163/Princess-Diana-coroner-debunks-murder-theories.html
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ytic psychotherapy towards the end of his life, most
notably in *Analysis Terminable and Interminable* (1937), where he
wrote that it is only in a very few cases that "can one speak of an
analysis having been definitely ended."
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Former lecturer, Science Departmen
he appalling (and
disastrous) killing of 13 innocent civilians on 30 January 1972:
Prime Minister David Cameron addressing the House of Commons: "What
happened on Bloody Sunday was both unjustified and unjustifiable."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10320609
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n and felt helpless. Then I slowly learned that -
with a great deal of time and effort (plus expenditure of my own money)
- it is possible to inform the world through a free press that the
distortion of my father’s character in the film "Shine" for dramatic
purposes is totally fal
s do not lack. ("We" no doubt would enjoy
telling friends we happened to meet/see a different kind of celebrity,
e.g., a well-known author.)
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a
be called research, would it?' "
Pity Garner and the New York Times didn't do a bit of fact checking on
that dubious quote!
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Albert_Einstein#Unsourced
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allenest
(interestingly,
fellow skeptic Michael Shermer also listens regularly to these folks).
American conservatism is a lot more than Fox News, Sean Hannity, and
Rush
Limbaugh, although the loudest and often shallowest voices
understandably tend
to get the most attention."
Back to the propos
thought of too highly" than of their simply not being generally known
to the public until his brother Theo revealed the treasure trove
Vincent left on his death.
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allenester.
e lucid than some of the
>postmodernist/deconstructionist stuff she was reading back then.
For snippets of the real thing, see:
http://denisdutton.com/bad_writing.htm
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?On 8 May 2010 Michael Sylvester wrote:
>Since Allen reminded us of Freud's birthday… […]
For the record, I didn't. :-)
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ter. In relation to
what he called the "Second phase of infantile masturbation" he wrote:
"The [details of the] second phase of infantile sexual activity… leave
behind the deepest (unconscious) impressions in the subject's memory,
determine the development of his character, if he is to
ost of the time
getting the patient to undertake activities (mental and physical) that
will enable him or her to live in the present and deal with current
difficulties directly.
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all
ammes. He wryly mentioned an
instance when his book "Psychiatry in Dissent" was given as "Psychiatry
in Descent" – as here:
"Professor Clare is well known for his BBC Radio series 'In the
Psychiatrist's Chair', and his book 'Psychiatry in Descent&
cognitive function
in the wider population in our opinion lacks empirical support.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vnfv/ncurrent/pdf/nature09042.pdf
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ntric" (we can take it as a given that
Western scientific history *has* been Eurocentric), etc, etc.
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From: sbl...@ub
the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
John Laws is a Lord Justice of Appeal.
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’t someone published it?”
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/02/simon-singh-chiropractic-bca-libel-appeal/
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on two crucial issues of law:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/01/simon-singh-judgement
Given these circumstances, the British Chiropractic Association is
likely to be advised not to bother to appeal to the Supreme Court.
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ict of the Appeal Court:
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2009/626.html
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fe on earth. (His increased
resorting to Lamarckian explanations in later editions of *Origin* was
largely in response to criticism of the first edition.) For Darwin,
Lamarckian mechanisms were a proposed *additional* process, not one
that underlay natural selection.
Allen Esterson
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ay*, 1991, p.
36). In other words, although Darwin allowed an increasing role for
Lamarckian mechanisms through the editions of *Origin* it remained
*subsidiary* to the main process of natural selection.
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means
are wholly so." More generally, Lamarck's evolutionary theory was
teleological (i.e., purposive), whereas natural selection is
non-teleological.
My understanding is that in later editions of *On the Origin of
Species* Darwin allowed a very limited role for Lamarckian mechanisms
n'tthink that David Steele said that Americans lie more about their
churchattendance, but it seems to me very possible that this might be the case
for acountry where church attendance is more widely regarded as a virtuous
activity.
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2.15 minutes in)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2MuI5VFtcE&NR=1
(about 2.15 minutes in)
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listic
idealistic policies that would be virtually impossible to accomplish,
and which wouldn't help the Party if they were to be accepted by the
leadership because they don't have any great support among the wider
population.
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Sou
ith, word of honour; religious faith, belief"[3] (archaic English
troth "loyalty, honesty, good faith", compare Ásatrú).
Has anyone anything more to add? :-)
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o you can’t really weigh them up and compare them,
but I do think I had more to contend with then than I do now,' she
says."
http://tinyurl.com/yklykrz
Any discussion of "depression" that doesn't distinguish between
full-blown clinical depression and the far more common
f other
philosophers."
Max Talmey: "The Relativity Theory Simplified and the Formative Period
of its Inventor." Falcon Press, 1932, pp. 161-164.
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ht
act that
his theory about the formation of the Andes was wrong, as he knew
nothing about plate tectonics.
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It would be of interest to know why geologists are discussing this
currently. So, Michael, please supply some information so we can get
some idea of what this is about.
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I see that getting the "smiley" wrong (twice) in my last message rather
spoils the effect of using them. :-)
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e remarked
to pass, the Court of Appeal has ruled."
http://tinyurl.com/ykh7pw7
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break of
the Revolution, he predicted the rise of a strong man out of the army
who would become "master" of the Republic, but didn't live to see it
happen in the person of Napoleon.
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Sout
?On 23 February 2010 Stephen Black wrote:
> Not to set Allen Esterson off again, but for those tiring of a
> steady diet of Olympics, there's a long interesting essay, in
> historical context, on the dilemma of treating depression. It's
> on-line at the _New Yorker_ at http
ne
concludes that "After unsuccessful treatment with an SSRI,
approximately one in four patients had a remission of symptoms after
switching to another antidepressant."
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/354/12/1231
It should be evident that there are no simple answers to an
Safe Medication Practices, Pennsylvania.
Biography: A.B. from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y; Graduate courses
in statistics and statistical computing. Moore's website is here:
http://thomasjmoore.com/
I can't help feeling that he's a rather odd choice for a co-author of
such
our current state of
knowledge
> is sufficient to explain things and engaging in the confirmation bias
will
>provide one with support for arguments that in retrospect are likely
to be
>flawed or mistaken.
Yes, indeed!
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ctor") surely
takes the biscuit:
http://www.theeinsteingene.co.uk/einstein/
(Scroll down)
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michael sylvester
Mon, 01 Feb
boys were slightly outperforming girls in Mathematics and Science
subjects."...
On the general point raised by Jim, I would say that it is the case
that the issues highlighted by the Summers affair, and the Pinker vs
Spelke exchange, have not had much exposure in the press in the UK,
which
t
4 or 5 months at least 4⁄5 of my time" and that he intended to spend
two months trying out the water cure at Malvern, "which will cause a
sad delay in my Barnacle work".
This reminds me of the words on the headstone of the comedian Spike
Milligan: "I told you I was i
o do a rush job at the last moment. Sorry about the stereotyping, but
here's another one. There were two Chinese boys in the class. Both of
them produced reams of work for their coursework projects.
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