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no_hypocrisy

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10. OMG, a lobotomy!

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Sat Jul 25, 2020, 07:47 AM

Jul 2020

Why are kids who are unconventional deemed pathological? A child reacting against abuse called Oppositional Defiant Disorder? Given psychotropic drugs? A lobotomy to "tame" them?

Look what happened to Rosemary Kennedy? Her father killed her essence in her Twenties because he didn't want her to have sex, get pregnant out-of-wedlock, and ruin his son's (sons') prospects of gaining higher office.

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Neurosurgeon removed part of young black boys' brains to cure 'disruptive behavior' [View all] bobbieinok Jul 2020 OP

A lot of "experimentation" was done back in the day Delarage Jul 2020 #1

I'm going to be sick. What a monster!!! GreenPartyVoter Jul 2020 #2

It was done to rich white women also, marybourg Jul 2020 #3

Yes. Psychosurgery, at its height in the 1950s. The money Hortensis Jul 2020 #14

Medical Apartheid malaise Jul 2020 #4

There's a memoir-- My Lobotomy-- about a boy who got an 'ice-pick" lobotomy dawg day Jul 2020 #5

Lobotomy's were pretty routine. tavernier Jul 2020 #6

Is this is son, then, who is practicing now? CurtEastPoint Jul 2020 #7

The Tuskegee Study: From 1932 to 1972 the U.S. Public Health Service conducted a study of the sop Jul 2020 #8

The horrors of medical intervention in the cause of imperialistic "control" & eugenics not limited hlthe2b Jul 2020 #9

OMG, a lobotomy! no_hypocrisy Jul 2020 #10

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Goodheart Jul 2020 #11

I hope there's a God to forgive these people, because I can't/won't... abqtommy Jul 2020 #12

Heard on the Dr. Demento radio show: I'd Rather Have A Bottle In Front Of Me Than To Have A abqtommy Jul 2020 #13

He appears to have very high reputation for treatment of Parkinsons, othrr brain disorders bobbieinok Jul 2020 #15

link? nt USALiberal Jul 2020 #16