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...experiments that took place in Tuskegee, and we know that we're more likely to be misdiagnosed and overmedicated. So we're very, very suspicious of the medical community, especially when they're handing out drugs for the mind, as we should be. But we're putting ourselves in harm's way when we don't press for better diagnosis, better treatment. Because when we go into denial, what's going to happen far more often than not, is that those people with mental illnesses are going to wind up self-medicating with alcohol, with drugs. So then...
...humans are not the nice people we think we are,” Banaji wrote. “We should not assume that we will be ‘fair’ in our fear responses. We are likely to fear members of outgroups who have done us harm more so than members of our own group who have done us equal harm...
...Yemenis at Gitmo to other countries without giving the captives a chance to weigh in, on the grounds that they might be sent to nations where they could be tortured. Indefinite detention without charges at Guantanamo could translate into the same in another country, plus more aggressive physical harm. And there are several other legal battles pending, including one that revolves around whether the detainees can go to federal court to challenge their confinement...
...conversation with an ailing nun and the donning of a fire fighter's hat. "He'll never be a celebrity," says a Vatican official who has worked closely with Ratzinger. "But he seems more joyful and sure of himself." Ratzinger's brother was once worried that the job might harm his health. On the contrary, asserts Walter Cardinal Kaspar, a fellow German, "he is reinvigorated...
...work in Rob Cohen ’71’s latest flick, “Stealth,” I regretted not being able to follow their lead. Surely, some pre-gaming would have dulled my growing desire to end my misery by inflicting bodily harm upon myself...