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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NBC anti-life?

I would boycott NBC, if I ever watched it that is. I actually never watch anything on the old line networks, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX. Everything I watch is on the cable only stations... do they still broadcast over the air? Ah well, this story is about the fact that it seems NBC refused to air an ad put together by some Catholic outfit that features an embryo and all of the hardships it faced in early life ending up with the revelation that they were talking about Obama. Here is the ad , check it out and see how unoffensive it is. Like I said, if I watched them I'd quit now. :-/

Child Driven Education

Here is a Ted Talk with Sugata Mitra on Child Driven Education... very unschooling-like I think. :-) I've seen videos of him before, this is an update on his research on letting groups of kids learn on the internet, mostly without any supervision at all. Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

The Tea Parties

I didn't make our local Tea Party , but it pulled hundreds of people as well... Tea, anyone? from Father Hollywood by Father Hollywood Like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, the Hollywoods enjoyed a tea party this past Wednesday. "Tea party" (wink wink). Nothing subversive about sipping a little Darjeeling, eh wot? Nothing to see here, Miss Napolitano. Anyway, our local festivities were held at Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie. There were literally thousands of people crammed into the neutral ground (though on that day, the ground was anything but...), as cars and trucks poured by the busy boulevard laing on their horns in support. Here are pictures. And like every such gathering in our environs, there was even a brass band and an improptu "second line" parade. It was a "party" after all. But it was a party with a serious reason. The crowds were so overwhelming that it was hard to hear the speakers, and unfortunately, we did have a fe...

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