Awesome article via a friend.

"Slipping the 'Cognitive Straitjacket' of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Psychiatry's diagnostic bible meets the awkward facts of genetics by Steven E. Hyman ( Read more... )

I heard about this quite belatedly from tielan. Henry Louis Gates, a preeminent Harvard professor and a well known writer and essayist, arrested at Cambridge home. He had just returned from China, and when he tried to get into his house, the door jammed, forcing him, with help, to break into his own house. A neighbor called the police to report a ( Read more... )

Losing my religion for equality by Jimmy Carter, July 15, 2009.

Jimmy Carter has severed ties with the Southern Baptist Convention after six decades in the name of gender equality. I'm so proud to have had him as a president of my country during my lifetime.

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My fellow Elders and I, who come from many faiths and backgrounds, no longer ( Read more... )

Imposter Syndrome

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"Impostor syndrome" is the name given to the feelings that...young [academics] describe: Their accomplishments are just luck or deceit, and they're in over their heads. The key to getting past it, experts say, is making accurate, realistic assessments of your performance. Perhaps equally important: knowing you're not ( Read more... )

"Medical Evangelism"--people deliberately going into medical professions to deny services they do not believe in with the intent of restricting access.

"People of Faith" about the misdirection of "but they're religious" being used synonymously with "they must be good and kind" and presuming that being areligious is equivalent to being mean/bad.A ( Read more... )

celli sent me this: "Asperger's: My life as an Earthbound alien" is a first person account of a late-diagnosed Aspie who comments that "for most of my life, I knew that I was 'other,' not quite like everyone else. ...Although having the diagnosis has been cathartic, it does not change the 'otherness.' It only confirms it." She also shares her sensory ( Read more... )

"The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know" By David Wolman.

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Autistics like Baggs are now leading a nascent civil rights movement. "I remember in '99," she says, "seeing a number of gay pride Web sites. I envied how many there were and wished there was something like that for autism. Now there is." The ( Read more... )

I got a copy of this via email and am sharing here.

War is peace

by Timothy Snyder, Prospect Magazine, November 2004

1984 can be read as a warning about the failings of mass democracies, especially in wartime. Witness America.

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Now I have to link to it too. Gakked from mtgat, who got it from someone else: "It's the Christianity, Stupid".

Enjoy.