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- From: diamond@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Abrams)
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- Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
- Message-ID: <9159@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:06:11 GMT
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- In article <ewright.728159947@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
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- >Pick up a book called "The Myth of Mental Illness" by Thomas Sasz,
- >and you may discover what "mad doctoring" is all about.
- >
- >Hint: Drawing an anology between physical ailments and socially
- >disapproved behaviors does not make the analogy appropriate.
-
- Oh, Ed, if you're really listening to Thomas Szaz (which I think is how
- his name is spelled, although I could be wrong) I begin to see how you
- could be so messed up about so many things. (Although I suppose I could
- be confusing cause and effect).
-
- Ed, do you even *distinguish* between your own opinions and THE TRUTH?
-
-
- --Diamond
-
- diamond@acpub.duke.edu| We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn
- Elizabeth S. Abrams | them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress
- | but the memory of the smell of smoke, and the
- | presumption that once our eyes watered. -Tom Stoppard
-