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Tetro Kornbluth
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« on: November 05, 2007, 04:57:39 PM »

Well I can't imagine anyone (except possibly Statesrights) saying positive therefore there is no poll, I'm merely using this an example of how Science can be abused to further various other interests (After all Cartwright was considered a leading scientist at the time):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draptomania
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« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2007, 03:54:36 AM »

It was really asserted btw:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3106t.html
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« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2007, 07:06:50 AM »

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Totally True except one fact; Cartwright was seen as significant enough to be appointed to a high medical office in the CSA - the point of this thread is that so-called medical experts can often intrepet what we call scientific facts (Would a desire for a man to be free be a scientific fact? I assume so, which is of course a major problem in itself.) into something which can justify the prejudices of whichever society he happens to be in; of course this "expert" would not think of it as such but he would think trying to solve a 'problem' whose roots are social rather medical.

ADHD, anyone?
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