They're probably waiting until their lone literate employee can come in to approve the commentsI don't know anything about it, I'm afraid. Your comment (and loads of others) maybe be held in moderation.
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They're probably waiting until their lone literate employee can come in to approve the commentsI don't know anything about it, I'm afraid. Your comment (and loads of others) maybe be held in moderation.
I think that's a gif of Rod Liddle.The Sun has let me type in a comment but then nothing more happened except that I got that thing that looks like a worm going round in a circle
Speaking of psychobabble and AIDS, this paper is a good reminder of how much things can change:
The group-fantasy origins of AIDS.
Proposes a psychosocial origin of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), which lies on the cusp between immunology, pathology, and psychology. It is argued that (a) AIDS is a typical example of epidemic hysteria, (b) the epidemic has at its core an unconscious group delusion that can be called the group fantasy of scapegoating, (c) the same fantasy complex underlies this scapegoating ritual as was found for leprosy during the Middle Ages, and (d) the proximal and distal causes of the tensions giving rise to the epidemic can be found in the group psychology of the US. A combination of unconscious group tensions brought about a subtle and sophisticated sacrificial witch hunt, in which the participants were the Moral Majority and an assortment of other conservative groups (as hunters) and the nation's drug addicts and homosexuals (as hunted). Both of these subgroups are acting out group sanctioned and group delegated roles, and these attacks have resulted in an epidemic of depression based mostly on shame. The core sign of AIDS, the reduction of cell-mediated immunity, is one of the typical vegetative signs of depression.
http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1985-14989-001
I've read this and reread it and cannot believe this was published somewhere - it goes beyond psychobabble to full-blow psychosis I believe!
It'll be three o'clock tomorrow then probably, when the employee finishes at nursery school.They're probably waiting until their lone literate employee can come in to approve the comments
I think that's a gif of Rod Liddle.
Boom boom!
It gets even stranger. This paper was published after the announcement that a virus was probably the cause. And the author died of AIDS later.
At a 23 April 1984 press conference in Washington, D.C., Margaret Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services, announced that Gallo and his co-workers had discovered a virus that is the "probable" cause of AIDS. This virus was initially named HTLV-III.[18] That same year, Casper Schmidt responded to Gallo's papers with "The Group-Fantasy Origins of AIDS", Journal of Psychohistory.[19] Schmidt posited that AIDS was not an actual disease, but rather an example of "epidemic hysteria" in which groups of people are subconsciously acting out social conflicts. Schmidt compared AIDS to documented cases of epidemic hysteria in the past which were mistakenly thought to be infectious. (Schmidt himself would later die of AIDS in 1994.)[20][21]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_denialism
On a side note, will we see a Wikipedia page on ME/CFS denialism in the future?
The Mail's standard "I had ME but after six weeks being beaten with live eels I was fine and emerged with THIS BEACH BODY!"
And the author died of AIDS later.
.she has even managed to shake off her sedatory [sic] lifestyle by enrolling in an art and design course at Plymouth College of Art
But it 's probably fair to say that people with this horrible illness who do recover probably go into a remission, and it requires significant changes in lifestyle – much less stress, improvements to work-life balance, better nutrition – for the symptoms not to flare up months or even years later
The Mail's standard "I had ME but after six weeks being beaten with live eels I was fine and emerged with THIS BEACH BODY!"
I've read this and reread it and cannot believe this was published somewhere - it goes beyond psychobabble to full-blow psychosis I believe!
The destructive forces at our disposal have forced a total reorganization of our thinking, since there is no longer the possibility of a winnable war between the superpowers. We resort to fantasies, as in the case of World War 11 which is currently being touted, somewhat nostalgically, as "The Good War."(47) The pattern of warfare for both superpowers - China is ignored as a superpower for purposes of fantasy, since one has only two parents - has become one of war-by-proxy or displacement wars. Thus, Korea, Vietnam, and Central America for the U.S., and uprisings in the Eastern Bloc countries and Afghanistan for the US.S.R. This curb on phallic-aggressive acting-out by the US. had led to widespread fears of being effeminate or impotent (fantasy: "We can't screw them, therefore we must be women.") As can be seen from the cartoons from the early part of the Reagan years (Figures 7 & 8), most of our phallic potency was injected into the Russians, who took on a frighteningly and humiliatingly masculine aspect, while America felt relatively impotent. These are, I think, the roots for the great need for "a winnable war" (between the superpowers) which is so apparent at this time. This curb on phallic-assertiveness created a feeling of gender dysphoria, which was then injected into the nations's homosexuals in fantasy. ("It's not we who feel weak and impotent, it's them.") This weakness and impotence "of America" was painfully conscious for all during the Carter years, and part of Reagan's mandate was to turn this around. After the invasion of Grenada the 'balance of potency" was completely reversed (Figure 9), so that we felt proud again, or as the phrase went, 'America [was] standing tall again."
No it's called psychoanalysis.
The full paper is far more insane than the abstract leads to to believe by the way. Read it. It's incredible.
Wow - I just scanned a little bit, cannot read the whole thing. Am almost speechless - but what seems worse than the literally insane paper is that it was PUBLISHED! But I guess this theory never caught on (too many people dying!), unlike what has been done to CFS/ME .....
I find it ironically appropriate that the figures that accompany this article are cartoons.The full paper is far more insane than the abstract leads to to believe by the way. Read it. It's incredible.
Similar arguments have been made for MS, cancer (especially breast cancer), heart disease, gastric ulcers and so on. Its a long familiar story. Simon Wessely has made arguments that resemble this, about ME.I've read this and reread it and cannot believe this was published somewhere - it goes beyond psychobabble to full-blow psychosis I believe!
Similar arguments have been made for MS, cancer (especially breast cancer), heart disease, gastric ulcers and so on. Its a long familiar story. Simon Wessely has made arguments that resemble this, about ME.
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I think that our standards have slipped so low that people here think this is a good article - it might be 'not bad for the Sun' but I think it is appalling to accept such low quality - the headline alone makes it seem like a big laugh