Posted by Squiggles on February 15, 2007, at 21:33:32
In reply to Re: Who's afraid of the BIG BAD WOLF ???, posted by Declan on February 15, 2007, at 19:53:47
> No one responded to my post on social about the CCHR outfit, so I shall repost it here. It bears repeating, I think.
> (William Burroughs was a scientologist, wasn't he, so it can't be all bad.) Anyway......William Burroughs was not a very nice man, and
even if he was, this would be an argument from
authority - a logical fallacy.
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> 26 people died and no one knows how many were injured by deep sleep therapy at Chelmsford Private Hospital over a 10 year period in the 60s and 70s in Sydney, Australia. This CCHR outfit was an important part of the struggle to prevent this sort of thing continuing.
>Sleep therapy was experimental in Russia and just one of the many treatments they tried. It is no longer practiced. But ECT is, and Dr. Healy approves of it.
> The main bloke, Dr Harry Bailey committed suicide and 2 other doctors were deregistered.
> There had to be a Royal Commission to find out how this had been allowed to happen.
>That is tragic, and shows deep and personal regret at a failed experiment.
Do you expect all treatments to work in an experimental science? Have you quoted how many have injured themselves or others without any treatment as a comparison?
Squiggles
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