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Kate Bush Cloudbusting (Original Post) Swede Apr 2021 OP
.The tragic story behind Kate Bush's 'Cloudbusting'... PoliticAverse Apr 2021 #1
I read that book a few years ago... regnaD kciN Apr 2021 #2
I read Jerome Greenfield 's _Wilhelm Reich Vs. the U.S.A._ PoliticAverse Apr 2021 #3
probably my favorite music video ever MissLilyBart Apr 2021 #4

regnaD kciN

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2. I read that book a few years ago...
Sat Apr 3, 2021, 05:33 PM
Apr 2021

It's just sad on all counts. It's pretty obvious that Reich was quite eccentric by that time, but the intensity with which the federal government hunted him down for what, at absolute worst, would be preaching pseudoscience, says a lot more about how their puritanical impulses reacted when confronted with questionable science that had an implied sexual aspect. It was almost as if they regarded his theories as dangerous pornography rather than scientific hypotheses (of whatever validity).

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