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   Message 400 of 2,131   
   Marginal Product to All   
   Re: Winston Churchill about psychs   
   10 Jun 05 04:02:57   
   
   XPost: alt.religion.scientology, alt.suicide.holiday, de.soc.wel   
   anschauung.scientology   
   From: jonnybox@gmail.com   
      
   Vivaldi rocks! wrote:   
   > "I am sure it would be sensible to restrict as much as possible the   
   > work of these [psychologists and psychiatrists], who are capable of   
   > doing an immense amount of harm with what may very easily degenerate   
   > into charlatanry.  The tightest hand should be kept over them, and   
   > they should not be allowed to quarter themselves in large numbers   
   > among Fighting Services at the public expense." - Winston Churchill,   
   > British Prime Minister, 1942   
   > ==============================   
   >   
      
   Thanks for this. Nice quote, presumably relating at least somewhat to   
   Germany's work in the field.   
      
      
   I have a quick one, only worthy of note because it's from from Karl   
   Popper, father of scientific method:   
   "for me it is all hearsay" in a 1981 letter to Thomas Szasz   
      
      
   Thomas Szasz: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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