In an important and thorough post last week at The Atlantic, Ford Vox, a physician-journalist in Boston, wrote about Scientology's...
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In an important and thorough post last week at The Atlantic, Ford Vox, a physician-journalist in Boston, wrote about Scientology's campaign against psychiatry, a useful reminder that Scientology continues to pursue its agenda, even if we're not always aware of it.
His post focuses on a series of four articles written by Andrea Ball in May and June at the Austin American-Statesman. They deal with a controversy over psychiatric research that appears to have been done improperly. The first article begins with a serious indictment:
The Department of State Health Services has prohibited the use of a controversial treatment at its public psychiatric hospitals after officials say they learned that a doctor performed unauthorized research on...
Book reviews are not something we look at often on the Tracker, but when a review...
Book reviews are not something we look at often on the Tracker, but when a review includes science reporting and speculation on the nature of illness, it's fair game.
Roger Rosenblatt is a distinguished journalist who has written for The Washington Post, Time, and many others, including The New Yorker, where he wrote a piece that's relevant to this post and which I will mention in a bit. In yesterday's New York Times Book Review, Rosenblatt wrote a front-page review of The Boy in the Moon, a painful memoir by Ian Brown, the father of a child with a severe genetic...
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