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A new NASA-led study shows that tropical forests may be absorbing far more carbon dioxide than many scientists thought, in response to rising atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas. The study estimates that tropical forests absorb 1.4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide out of a total global absorption of 2.5 billion -- more than is absorbed by forests in Canada, Siberia and other northern regions, called boreal forests.
"This is good news, because uptake in boreal forests is already slowing, while tropical forests may continue to take up carbon for many years," said David Schimel of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. Schimel is lead author of a paper on the new research, appearing online in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
Over recent months Channel 4 and the Sun have been running a series of features exposing secrets of the Church of Scientology. A Channel 4 documentary featured the behaviour of Scientology adherents towards those who rejected the "faith" and the revenge tactics employed against them.
In a similar format, the Sun ran a series of articles exposing "treatment" methods of the church. Having watched the Channel 4 programme I began to have a feeling of deja vu, in that I've seen this type of revenge mentality before, and the Sun's exposure of treatment methods s all too familiar.
Recently, the BBC's Panorama reporter, John Sweeney, has written a book on Scientology, "The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology", which reveals many of the methods of indoctrination employed by Scientology practitioners together with some of their extraordinary beliefs. Sweeney, in 2007, famously had a screaming match with Scientology's spokesman, Tommy Davis, during Panorama's first investigation into Scientology's oddities.
Scientology was established in the United States by a science fiction writer, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. In 1950, as L. Ron. Hubbard, he published his theories of the human mind in the book, "Dianetics". This described a system of psychotherapy he had developed to "cleanse the mind of harmful disorders".
By 1954, Hubbard had developed his form of psychotherapy into a religion, which he termed, Scientology. After the foundation of the Church of Scientology, Hubbard struggled for many years to gain recognition of it as a legitimate religion. Churches in the United States enjoy a tax free status, and U.S. tax authorities describe Scientology as a cult. Former members of the Scientology movement accuse it of fraud, harassment and brainwashing.
In contrast, psychology and psychoanalysis originated from the theories of Sigmund Freud who following a study of hysteria, extreme excitability, concluded that "mental disorders were caused by the disguised expression of unconscious wishes, particularly related to the complicated states of psycho-sexuality". In 1905, Freud published a book, "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality", which led critics to conclude that Freud, a cocaine addict, had an obsession about having sex with his mother.
Freud's close collaborator, Carl Gustav Jung broke with Freud over Freud's drug use and cocaine fuelled insistence on the sexual basis of all neuroses, and founded Analytical Psychology in response to Freud's Psychoanalysis. Jung, who famously said, "Show me a sane man and I'll cure him for you", went on to develop new psychotherapeutic techniques. These were designed "to re-acquaint an individual with his unique place in the collective unconscious as expressed in dream and imagination".
Jung's new psychotherapeutic techniques were heavily criticised as "merely disguised religion' and dismissed for its lack of proof or verification. In spite of these justified criticisms, both Freud and Jung are esteemed as founding fathers of modern psychology.
Most of the above facts were referenced from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, in case you thought I was making it all up, but the parallels between Scientology and Psychology grow even more remarkable.
An initial interview process with Scientology begins with an "audit" of the potential recruits qualities and mental well-being. An initial interview process with prison psychologists begins with a "risk-assessment" of a prisoners qualities and mental well-being. The psychological testing of an audit or risk-assessment measures the skills, knowledge, intelligence, capacities, aptitudes of the subject, but most importantly, receptiveness to "treatment". This psychometric testing of subjects is not to establish if treatment is necessary. In Scientology treatment is a prerequisite of being accepted into the Church.
In prisons, psychologists already know a prisoner requires intervention, "for otherwise they wouldn't be in prison", would they?
Psychotherapeutic methods in both Scientology and psychology are very similar. In both cases, low level treatment takes place in the wider community by means of courses. A more intensive level of indoctrination or psychotherapy in Scientology takes place in "the Barn", in prison psychology, therapeutic communities serve as Barns.
Scientology backsliders or defectors have an extreme form of re-education in units known collectively as "the Hole". In prison psychology the units created for these "fallen angels" are known as Dangerous Severe Personality Disorder or Psychologically Informed Planned Environments (PIPEs) units.
In Scientology quasi-clerical terms are used to emphasise the religious aspect of the Church, terms such as Elder, Minister, Deacon, etc present an image of spiritual structure.
In psychology, quasi-scientific terms are used, Clinical Psychologist, Forensic Psychologist and so forth to present a scientific image for psychology.
Sadly, psychology is not fact based, so cannot be a true science. It is entirely opinion based and like Jung's psychotherapeutic techniques could be dismissed as faith or perhaps again, a belief based Proto-religion.
The Church of Scientology is always looking for new converts and once made an attempt to introduce a course of treatment for drug addicts into English prisons. Termed "Criminon", it was a distance learning course, however, when it was discovered that Scientology was the sponsor of the course, the project was shelved, due in part to Inside Time's refusal to advertise it.
Prison psychologists are always looking for new intervention candidates. New courses continually appear to replace old, tired ones, with meaningless names like "mindfulness". What is a mindfulness. course? No idea, but someone's making a fortune dreaming them up!
In writing this article, a thought occurred, given the similarities between psychology and Scientology how many psycho-babes could be Scientologists? Considering the evidence above, all of them. Perhaps there's even a Church of Psychology in the offing. Now there is a scary thought!
Having exposed the many links between Scientologists and psychology, I now live in daily fear of Tom Cruise coming round to head-butt me in the nadgers.
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During the Nazi era, for the first time in history, psychiatrists sought to systematically exterminate their patients. It has been acknowledged that the medical profession was profoundly involved in crimes against humanity during this period, with various publications describing this malevolent period of medical history. It is less known, however, that psychiatrists were among the worst transgressors. At each stage of the descent of the profession into the depths of criminal and genocidal clinical practice lay a series of unethical decisions and immoral professional judgments. Furthermore, very little has been published on lessons that may be learned from this dark period in the history of psychiatry and on ethical principles that may be extrapolated for the future practice of clinical and research psychiatry and for inclusion in educational programs. This paper reviews the role of psychiatrists in the Nazi era and analyzes the underlying misconceptions that led to the aberrant behavior. Finally, some recommendations for inclusion of the study of this period in ethics training are presentedHere is the link to this publication. He has sited his own work, which the reader has to pay to read....bloody money grabbers init? He goes on and on saying that the Nazi regime used psychiatrist to kill people, but does not show any proof. Right lets see what Wikipedia says on the subject.
1) Any person suffering from a hereditary disease may be rendered incapable of procreation by means of a surgical operation (sterilization), if the experience of medical science shows that it is highly probable that his descendants would suffer from some serious physical or mental hereditary defect.
(2) For the purposes of this law, any person will be considered as hereditarily diseased who is suffering from any one of the following diseases: –And the article says this:
(1) Congenital Mental Deficiency,
(2) Schizophrenia,
(3) Manic-Depressive Insanity,
(4) Hereditary Epilepsy,
(5) Hereditary Chorea (Huntington’s),
(6) Hereditary Blindness,
(7) Hereditary Deafness,
(8) Any severe hereditary deformity.
(3) Any person suffering from severe alcoholism may be also rendered incapable of procreation.
The law applied to anyone in the general population, making its scope significantly larger than the compulsory sterilisation laws in the United States, which generally were only applicable on people in psychiatric hospitals or prisons.
The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction, and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world.
—Malthus T.R. 1798. An essay on the principle of population. Chapter VII, p61[1]
The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same that it may always be considered, in algebraic language, as a given quantity. The great law of necessity which prevents population from increasing in any country beyond the food which it can either produce or acquire, is a law so open to our view...that we cannot for a moment doubt it. The different modes which nature takes to prevent or repress a redundant population do not appear, indeed, to us so certain and regular, but though we cannot always predict the mode we may with certainty predict the fact.
—Malthus, 1798, Chapter IV.
Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.
Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. He was "an enthusiastic exponent of evolution" and even "wrote about evolution before Darwin did." As a polymath, he contributed to a wide range of subjects, including ethics, religion, anthropology, economics, political theory, philosophy, biology, sociology, and psychology. During his lifetime he achieved tremendous authority, mainly in English-speaking academia. "The only other English philosopher to have achieved anything like such widespread popularity was Bertrand Russell, and that was in the 20th century." Spencer was "the single most famous European intellectual in the closing decades of the nineteenth century" but his influence declined sharply after 1900; "Who now reads Spencer?" asked Talcott Parsons in 1937.
Spencer is best known for coining the concept "survival of the fittest", which he did in Principles of Biology (1864), after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. This term strongly suggests natural selection, yet as Spencer extended evolution into realms of sociology and ethics, he also made use of Lamarckism.
Quote from Churchill: “I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.”
(To the Peel Commission 1937)And from this article:
When he was Home Secretary (February 1910-October 1911) Churchill was in favor of the confinement, segregation, and sterilization of a class of persons contemporarily described as the "feeble minded." The most significant letter Churchill wrote in support of eugenics was not, however, deliberately left out of the official biography by Randolph Churchill for reasons of embarrassment, but simply through oversight. -Ted Hutchinson
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In the 4th century BCE, Hippocrates theorized that physiological abnormalities may be the root of mental disorders.Religious leaders often turned to versions of exorcism to treat mental disorders often utilizing cruel and barbaric methods.[1]
The Sushruta Samhita contains 184 chapters and description of 1120 illnesses, 700 medicinal plants, a detailed study on Anatomy, 64 preparations from mineral sources and 57 preparations based on animal sources. It is the main reference book for ayurvedic surgeons. Sushshruta is considered as a great surgeon of ancient times.[2]
Khaled Mashal was born in the village of Silwad, north of Ramallah, then ruled by Jordan. Mashal attended Silwad Elementary School until the 1967 Six-Day War and the occupation of the West Bank by Israel. His father moved the family to Kuwait afterward for financial reasons. Mashal holds a bachelor of science degree in Physics from Kuwait University. Mashal joined the Muslim Brotherhood in 1971.
While at Kuwait University, Mashal headed the Islamic Justice (qa’imat al-haq al-islamiyya) list in the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) elections in 1977. The basis for the Islamic Justice list was the Palestinian Islamic movement, as part of the Muslim Brotherhood. After the cancellation of the GUPS elections, Mashal established the Islamic League for Palestinian Students (al-rabita al-islamiyya li talabat filastin) in 1980.[2] Mashal taught in the Kuwait schools from 1978 to 1984. He was married in 1980 and is the father of three daughters and four sons.
In 1983, the Palestinian Islamic movement convened an internal, closed conference in an Arab state. It included delegates from the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Palestinian refugees from the Arab states. It was an important milestone as it laid the foundation for the creation of Hamas. Mashal was part of the leadership of the project to build a Palestinian Islamic movement from its inception, after 1984 Mashal devoted himself to the project on a full-time basis. During this period Mashal remained in Kuwait.
Mashal lived in Kuwait until the 1991 Gulf War. When Iraq invaded Kuwait, Mashal moved to Jordan and began working directly with Hamas. He has been a member of Hamas' Political Bureau since its inception and became its chairman in 1996.