tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002090569667317956.post7754275935824437435..comments2023-07-16T03:00:42.402-07:00Comments on The Kafka Pandemic: History and oblivion (Le Roy and the next age of mankind)Samuel Waleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11141951571229527898noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002090569667317956.post-7951745837938593042013-03-06T14:26:45.998-08:002013-03-06T14:26:45.998-08:00Hi Jay,
Thank you.
Hi Jay,<br /><br />Thank you.<br />Samuel Waleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11141951571229527898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002090569667317956.post-56384398476194202332013-03-05T03:44:10.128-08:002013-03-05T03:44:10.128-08:00I thoroughly enjoyed reading this post and it reso...I thoroughly enjoyed reading this post and it resonates completely with how I have been feeling recently with my own experiences. Thank you for this.Jay https://www.blogger.com/profile/06064834618095780392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002090569667317956.post-21857249652578624262012-05-17T00:41:50.483-07:002012-05-17T00:41:50.483-07:00Hi Fly,
I think that everybody is in danger of th...Hi Fly,<br /><br />I think that everybody is in danger of the same thing, only they don't realize it. I wonder if anybody else can tell you about what your grandmother had to deal with?<br /><br />The SMC is a real problem in the UK press on certain topics, isn't it? I wonder how much the general public realizes that.<br /><br />Sonia Poulton's great <a href="http://poultonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012/05/me-is-comparable-to-aids-so-why-do-so-many-in-the-medical-establishment-continue-to-deny-its-existen.html" rel="nofollow">recent article on M.E.</a> made it through the barrier thanks to efforts by unknown advocates.Samuel Waleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11141951571229527898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002090569667317956.post-50622317481346196682012-05-16T20:56:42.670-07:002012-05-16T20:56:42.670-07:00Hi Alex,
Indeed those topics are important and I ...Hi Alex,<br /><br />Indeed those topics are important and I hope you continue covering the logical errors.<br /><br />I will be making a point about fallacies that might surprise you.Samuel Waleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11141951571229527898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002090569667317956.post-73219216896459835462012-05-16T20:54:07.488-07:002012-05-16T20:54:07.488-07:00Hi kathryn,
Good question. Worth following San A...Hi kathryn,<br /><br />Good question. Worth following San Antonio now. (As always, useful to save articles early just in case they become scarce or modified.)<br /><br />===<br /><br />Hi Erik,<br /><br />Yes, they deliberately confuse, then they use the confusion<br />as pretext.Samuel Waleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11141951571229527898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002090569667317956.post-43497883737215886912012-05-16T20:53:37.845-07:002012-05-16T20:53:37.845-07:00Hi leelaplay,
Thanks :). And thank you for shari...Hi leelaplay,<br /><br />Thanks :). And thank you for sharing. I'm not on most places, so that makes a huge difference.Samuel Waleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11141951571229527898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002090569667317956.post-83760954536256001322012-05-16T20:47:25.320-07:002012-05-16T20:47:25.320-07:00Hi Mary,
It is wonderful to get a history lesson ...Hi Mary,<br /><br />It is wonderful to get a history lesson from a professional.<br /><br />I will likely address some related points in future posts.Samuel Waleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11141951571229527898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002090569667317956.post-85228171978691932252012-05-15T22:28:13.531-07:002012-05-15T22:28:13.531-07:00They'll call it,
"Chronic Disability Dis...They'll call it, <br />"Chronic Disability Disease: CDS"<br /><br />Then fight to say we don't know anything about CDS, and we don't know if CFS is CDS, so nobody knows nothing about anything.<br /><br /> 25 years later, insist that CDS is hopelessly confusing, drop the whole thing, and start a new syndrome all over again.<br /><br />Ad infinitum, ad nauseum, ad endum.Erik Jonsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002090569667317956.post-12410502608136142292012-05-15T13:17:05.415-07:002012-05-15T13:17:05.415-07:00I wonder what they are going to call the outbreak ...I wonder what they are going to call the outbreak occurring here near San Antonio? <br /><br />Well, at least a pediatrician of hematology and oncology is saying it's an Autoimmune disease, and he is seeing more and more of them every year. <br /><br />http://www.kens5.com/home/ito-151467795.htmlkathrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16819415896159458802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002090569667317956.post-57249909130111979092012-05-15T12:18:42.532-07:002012-05-15T12:18:42.532-07:00Another insightful blog. Thanks Samuel. Look forwa...Another insightful blog. Thanks Samuel. Look forward to the next instalment.leelaplaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002090569667317956.post-91558420025029702642012-05-15T07:49:58.119-07:002012-05-15T07:49:58.119-07:00Just Read The Batavian http://www.nytimes.com/2012...Just Read The Batavian http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/magazine/teenage-girls-twitching-le-roy.html?pagewanted=5&_r=1&ref=magazine<br /><br />oage 5 in my browser,<br /><br />who should get a mention, yep it's one of the SMC's (The Inquition's) mouth pieces.<br /><br /> "Simon Wessely, an epidemiologist at King’s College in London and chairman of the department of psychological medicine, estimates that hundreds of outbreaks occur every year in the United States — just this past November, 22 students fell ill with stomach "<br /><br />Probably thought better than being called a "psychiatrist" in this article huh!<br /><br />and "epidemiologist" dosen't sound so much like "which hunter" come to that, also sounds less like "banker" with a W. <br /><br />Both of which, are more accurate than either psychiatrist, or epidemiologist to descibe this eloquent magician, leader in the dark arts of of Media, Magical Medicine, and magically dissapearing diseases.FuBarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207274426321087529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002090569667317956.post-35243092692442797562012-05-15T07:15:17.390-07:002012-05-15T07:15:17.390-07:00Brilliant blog......
on the ground, in the life m...Brilliant blog......<br /><br />on the ground, in the life my NAN lived, perhaps?<br /><br />My Nan born on the 07/07/1907 was eventually diagnosed with MS.<br /><br />I hate to think what she went through before her dx which was in the 1960's (I think, could be later though).<br /><br />However she was also a renowned Tarot Card reader, City Majors were a regulars apperantly.<br /><br />I really wish I had been able to get to know her, and hear her life story. SHe died when i was ten and I had only met her once or twice.<br /><br />I wonder what they would have made of her Grandaughter back then too, a dyke with ME.<br /><br />I can almost feel the fire.FuBarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207274426321087529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002090569667317956.post-39625551652261081532012-05-14T23:18:36.314-07:002012-05-14T23:18:36.314-07:00I loved this article, it highlights just what has ...I loved this article, it highlights just what has gone on. I have an academic piece on a similar theme I have yet to read, that discusses witcraft and scientific bias, but I think it makes a similar point. So does Overton in "Charcot's Big Idea". My blog at Phoenix Rising called "The witch, The Python, The Siren and The Bunny" discusses a different aspect of this. We need to make a case, a community-wide case, against the fallacies that underlying the "reasoning" of irrationally attributing disease causation. Keep up the good work.Alex Young aka alex3619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4002090569667317956.post-45491560178535454882012-05-14T20:52:07.694-07:002012-05-14T20:52:07.694-07:00King Louis XIV was one heck of an organizer. Duri...King Louis XIV was one heck of an organizer. During his reign roads were built all around France (made of logs laid together - cords of wood, and since it belonged to the King, "cord du Roi" - which is how the word corduroy came to stand for a type of cloth that looked something like the King's roads. At any rate, good roads led to centrally collected statistics about the population.<br /><br />As part of the bureaucratizing effort, by the 1700s local officials were carefully writing down the cause of every death.<br /><br />What a gold mine of information for a historian! Except for one problem - both their world (where many diseases and conditions common then do not exist today) and, perhaps more important, the way they understood disease was so different that historians quickly hit a wall trying to figure out just what those lists of deaths meant.<br /><br />Consumption meant TB, right? Well ... Yes, when it didn't mean brown lung from having worked in textile mills as a child, or lung cancer. "Died of a bloody flux" - now that's something you don't see very often now, do you?<br /><br />Just 200 years ago diseases were classified not by cause, but symptoms. And it can be difficult to retroactively make a modern diagnosis.<br /><br />That is to say that medicine has a history. And it continues to have a history. But just as that which was poorly understood was once labeled "possessed by the devil", today it seems that psychiatry wants to step up to the plate and be forever remembered in the same category with the lawyers in the Salem Witch trials, who searched intently for the proof that a woman was a witch - extra "teats" from which the devil drew sustenance, for example (moles in the wrong place). <br /><br />If only they understood the history of medicine. Perhaps they would notice that medicine driven by pure theory (the four humors; the objective signs of witchcraft) has unfortunate consequences. Such as, perhaps, a branch of medicine loyal to a dogma called "biopsychosocial" and the claim to end "Cartesian" duality between mind and body, all the while making a living insisting a disease abandoned by other professionals is ... All in the mind, caused by "inappropriate illness beliefs." Hmm. Sure sounds like Cartesian dualism to me.Mary Schweitzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11583106682242141031noreply@blogger.com