Category: abuse of power

The Ashley Treatment http://ashleytreatment.spaces.live.com/ So very sad and shocking when you first hear about it. But the parents do a good job of describing the numerous health and comfort benefits to the very controversial Ashley Treatment. It seems that there is improvement of quality of life when you first read it. And on their site, [...]

Symptom of our society, really, to deal with our problems with drugs, and usually, labels to justify using those drugs. Who needs wisdom or common sense, patience or tolerance, human understanding or clever problem solving. It’s big daddy pharmaceutical to the rescue, with sometimes tragic consequences.  
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070712/ap_on_re_us/toddler_booted
ATLANTA – A woman said she and her toddler son were kicked [...]

First performance we saw, live from Australia. There were so many great performances, but Blue King Brown was such a supremely smooth delight. Was hoping to find other songs as well on YouTube, but at least we have this one, the ‘Water’ video clip, director’s cut. Will definitely buy more of their music. If you missed it, so worth a [...]

Laughter isn’t the best medicine. It’s the only medicine.
Invitation from Michael Moore to share your Healthcare Horror Stories, to be screened and shared with Congress.

The Fluoride Deception (Interview With Christopher Bryson)http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7319752042352089988&pl=true
Learn about Edward Bernays, nephew of the very Sigmund Freud, and pioneer of a scientific technique for manipulating public opinion called - “engineering of consent“.  Sounds like something me and my family have already encountered from some doctors. And not exactly with our best intentions at heart either. More for their expediency and convenience, [...]

http://www.answers.com/topic/diagnostic-and-statistical-manual-of-mental-disorders 
The DSM has seen criticisms through the years. A Columbia University team headed by Robert Spitzer, an editor of the DSM, acknowledges a concern about the DSM in their annual report of 2001, “Problems with the current DSM-IV categorical (present vs. absent) approach to the classification of personality disorders have long been recognized by clinicians [...]

ABC News - Preachers Accused of Sins and Crimes on 20/20. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3034040&page=1
Ken Ward is a Southern Baptist pastor and teacher in East Texas, who has admitted to molesting more than 40 boys. He said that being a teacher and minister is the perfect job for a child molester, because it puts the molester in direct contact [...]

Just saw a W-Five report on a pedophile priest in Canada. Trying to find it online but no success. I have found this article instead, which is quite shocking if you were to click it and read it in its entirety. Gives some background on why pedophile priests may have historically been protected, their abuses kept hidden, their [...]

http://www.infoforhealth.org/pr/l11/l11chap3_3.shtml
 
Image from Info for Health and the Hesperian Foundation http://www.hesperian.org/
I’ve been reading how some claim incest was a positive or neutral experience for them. Of course, there are those who claim corporal punishment was a good thing for them too. So they see nothing wrong in meting out physical punishment to their own children when they misbehave, or otherwise. 
Why [...]