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bobthedrummer

(26,083 posts) Fri Jun 3, 2016, 02:21 PM Jun 2016

Ernst Rudin: The Founding Father of Psychiatric Genetics (Jay Joseph PsyD October 2015) [View all]

"Ernst Rudin was an early champion of eugenic and racial hygienic ideas, ideas that later became part of German Nationalist Socialist ideology."

http://www.madinamerica.com/2015/10/ernst-rudin-the-founding-father-of-psychiatric-genetics

This thread is going to focus on mad, literally, scientists and the total bs belief systems that are influencing US today-who better than Rudin to start with?

Add your own mad scientists/false "scientific" belief systems to this thread because we are being led by screwballs, aren't we?

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Ernst Rudin: The Founding Father of Psychiatric Genetics (Jay Joseph PsyD October 2015) [View all] bobthedrummer Jun 2016 OP

Joseph Scheider aka Dr. Sidney Gottlieb once a prime Central Intelligence Agency employee bobthedrummer Jun 2016 #1

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A slight change of plans-here are three articles by or about Louis Jolyon West beyond doubt a mad Dr bobthedrummer Jun 2016 #4

Has this been helpful to you, so far? Kick. n/t bobthedrummer Jun 2016 #5

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American Eugenics Society 1926-1972 (Rachel Gur-Arie Arizona State University 2014) bobthedrummer Jun 2016 #7

A callout to DUer's that belong to either APA-silence does not denote consent--add to this thread. bobthedrummer Jul 2016 #8

Is this a DU arbitrary taboo now? bobthedrummer Jul 2016 #9