Word: electroshocks
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...some gut level, the whole idea of electroshock therapy is absurd. At a time when people with mental illnesses can choose from a pharmacological cornucopia, why would they have electricity run through their brain instead? Didn't electroshock disappear around the same time as three-martini lunches...
...1980s to the Evangelical elite, co-authoring books with Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. One day, sitting with Falwell in a car surrounded by gay protesters, he realized he should be on the outside. After 25 years of clandestinely trying to "cure" himself via exorcism, electroshock and prayer, the father of two divorced and settled down with a man named Gary Nixon. Then he began searching for a way to expiate sins committed in the service of "homophobic haters...
...battle with manufacturers and governments around the world to curb commerce in these devices. Amnesty says electric-shock torture or the abuse of prisoners with shock devices has occurred in at least 50 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia. "Torturers seem to be discovering that electroshock stun weapons are ideal for their evil purposes--cheap, easy to conceal and hard to trace," says Brian Wood, who tracks the weapons internationally for Amnesty. TIME's own investigation found few international controls over the devices, along with disturbing evidence that stun guns from the U.S., Asia and Europe...
...London, Oppenheimer infiltrated a group dedicated to using prayer and electroshock therapy to turn gay men straight. Posing as the group's security coordinator, he managed to help sabotage a conference by releasing locusts and flies in the church which hosted the event...
...repairman would be the equivalent of Stanley attempting to find Livingstone, except that Stanley didn't get overcharged at the end of the journey. Then we saw a ray of hope. Maybe it was the cable. If we were lucky, all of our neighbors' television sets were also receiving electroshock therapy. The cable people, who value our monthly subscription checks, would send out a repairman right away...