Archive for February 1st, 2008
Drugging unruly children is a method of social control
Friday, February 1st, 2008A letter to the editor of Nature this week strongly objected to the widespread and involuntary administration of Ritalin to children, and to a recent claim, published in Nature, that ADHD is heritable and very prevalent. Sir Sahakian and Morein-Zamir's reference to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as heritable and affecting 4–10% of ...
The State is NEVER wrong
Friday, February 1st, 2008A good post about more law-enforcement abuses, which was one of the blag posts that trackbacked to J.D. Tuccille's aforementioned blag post. (Oh, but imagine the horror of a law-enforcement agency that wasn't the highest instance of legal authority in a state! Why, bad things would happen to good people ...
It IS happening here
Friday, February 1st, 2008Republocrats currently use fear-mongering on two big issues to garner support for their various State interventions into our lives—terrorism for some, global warming for others. Perhaps it can be said that libertarians also use something akin to fear-mongering in our debate and discussion, though of course I think it is ...