Posted by pandey_m@hotmail.com on December 30, 2000, at 18:52:53
> Robert Hsuing wrote on Jan. 13, 1999:
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> Some doctors are probably afraid of how their patients would react if they even brought up "electrocution". And some doctors probably have outdated ideas about ECT themselves. :-(
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> http://161.58.153.232/babble/19990601/msgs/2366.html
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> A contributor to the psychcobabble site wrote on Dec. 13, 2000:
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> > PEOPLE! We need to get our friends and family OFF these garbage drugs that are being pushed on to us all by society!!!
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> > They are addictive doctors who thrive on us all thinking we are screwed up and we arent. They get massive kickbacks from pushing those drugs on you and they make fortunes in office visits.
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> And on Dec. 14, 2000, Robert Hsuing replied:
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> Gross oversimplifications are neither supportive nor educational. Please cease and desist.
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> http://161.58.153.232/babble/20001130/msgs/50546.html
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> AND…
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> In a recent Discovery Channel program, editors included the comments of a well-dressed college professor who categorized the controversial subject matter presented in the program as “garbage.” To Discovery Channel editors, the professor’s comment was neither too general, not too uncivil to be included in a program edited for family viewing.Discovery Channel and such are heavily funded by big business to present "nature" and ("other") "human-interest" issues in such a way as to divert from the public mind the fact that transnational capital is screwing up the ecosystem (Here I use the term to *include* human civil society structures.) They produce *controversial* programs and include *controversial* statements for the sake of a no-holds-barred image; and for Orwellian language-control purposes - redefining *controversy* so that the important controversies get driven out of public discourse. You can get the info from
e.g. Monthly Review; or if you distrust information (I am not concerned with views here, but facts) from even independent marxist sources like MR; (then) ask Noam Chomsky!Psychobabble, on the other hand, is in a different paradigm - it belongs to the original internet culture (before "dotcom" largely turned it into a shopping arcade). So at psychobabble (like at gnu/free software foundation etc.) you will get moderation decisions which one may disagree with, subjectivity (in the present case, of Dr Hsuing) being unavoidable - but I think there is something ludicrous about supporting the disagreement with a parallel from a TV channel with a huge worldwide viewership like Discovery Channel (the operative word is TV).
Dr Bob may well object to *this* posting as flame-ish. That doesn't affect my argument.
poster:pandey_m@hotmail.com
thread:3628
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20001117/msgs/3628.html