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  3. From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
  4. Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
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  7. Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:18:20 GMT
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  16. In <MARTINC.93Jan27194857@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
  17.  
  18. >   Szasz has repudiated his best-known book?  Wow.
  19.  
  20. >"Repudiated" may be a little strong.  But he's certainly been quoted as
  21. >recognizing now that schizophrenia, bipolar illness, and some of the
  22. >other such things have biochemical bases and are therefore "real".
  23.  
  24. All behaviors, presumeably, have a biochemical basis and are therefore
  25. "real."  It does not follow that having a biochemical basis makes a
  26. behavior a disease.  Cellular respiration has a biochemical basis --
  27. does that make it a disease?
  28.  
  29.  
  30. >Further, he's been quoted as admitting that the way that the treatment
  31. >of the mentally ill changed after the book -- like de-institutionalizing
  32. >schizophrenics -- was *not* what he expected.
  33.  
  34. So?  Did he claim that he could predict the future of government policy?
  35.