Re: Expelled: If you don't believe in holy physics dogma ; you're

oriel36 wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2:59=EF=BF=BDam, Benj <bjac...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
> > The attacks always take the same form. The author is accused of
> > "pseudoscience". The authors find that grants and sup****t dry up.
> > Papers are rejected. Jobs suddenly become unavailable. You get fired.
> > You get denied tenure and not for the normal reasons like being a
> > woman or not willing to grovel before the tenured faculty. Attacks
> > often extend to being accused of mental illness or incompetence.
> >
>
> I don't know why everyone is surprised,it is not a new development and
> is a natural part of the empirical defences ,the old commie manifestos
> were full of this breathless stuff and no wonder Americans intutively
> hate the pseudo-pomp of empiricists,apart from the last approach to an
> objector,the following excerpt from the 1930's just about covers it
> all  -
>
> "When his allegiance is attacked, the psychopolitical operative should
> explain his connection with Vienna on the grounds that Vienna is the
> place of study for all im****tant matters of the mind.
>
> More im****tantly, he should rule into scorn, by reason of his
> authority, the sanity of the person attacking him, and if the
> psychopolitical archives of the country are adequate many defamatory
> data can be unearthed and presented as a rebuttal.
>
> Should anyone attempt to expose psychotherapy as a psychopolitical
> activity, the best defense is calling into question the sanity of the
> attacker. The next best defense is authority. The next best defense is
> a validation of psychiatric practices in terms of long and impressive
> figures. The next best defense is the actual removal of the attacker
> by giving him, or them, treatment sufficient to bring about a period
> of insanity for the duration of the trial. This, more than anything
> else, would discredit them, but it is dangerous to practice this, in
> the extreme." Chapter X
>
> http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7006/psychopolitics-pt2.html#anchor10

Hail Xenu!  Yes, L. Ron Hubbard was really bad at writing this sort of
propaganda; it's so over-the-top and so focused on demonstrating how
evil psychiatrists are that even a complete idiot can tell he wrote it
himself.  By the way, he didn't write it in the 1930's; I'd have to
look up the exact date, but Hubbard's title references "brainwa****ng,"
which means it can be no earlier than the Korean War.

--
Jim E. Black