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Political advocacy in "Scientific" American

Several years ago I canceled my subscription to Scientific American magazine. I did this because I had noticed that they had gone from what seemed a pretty straight forward science magazine addressed to educated laymen to what was obviously political advocacy with "science" as a bludgeon used to force acceptance of their socialist ideology.

I pretty much just ignored them from then on, until a few days ago when I came across this story:

When the Psychiatric Cure Is the Disease

Apparently one of the agendas of Socialist American magazine now is to minimize and debunk the reality of child abuse.

I was very gratified to see that the Wall Street Journal has put up a blog where both sides have been able to address this issue. I urge anyone who has had the misfortune of stumbling across the Scientific American story and thought it might be science of some sort to read the many responses by clinicians and survivors debunking the debunking so to speak. My thanks to friend Jeannie for pointing me to this blog, it was very helpful! :-)

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