MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'authoritarianism'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:37:34 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4997751&cid=t_113000_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2011%2F07%2Fin-which-i-fail-to-mourn-tom-ball.html Tom Ball's final stain.Ok, Since you DID set yourself on fire, I suppose I must read what you had to say. The reason is simple; I'm holding myself to my own standards. You see, I'm kind of on the other side of this story, which, in all fairness, Ball tells well, with all the historical data points as he regards the changes society has been making due to increasing awareness of the impact on children and family of abuse. This reminds me of the punchline of the old joke: "I may be crazy, but I ain't stupid."As a survivor of abuse, I have a rather different perspective. But at the same time, as a child, any time I felt discomfort, and later on, as a young adult, any time I sought help or spoke of pain that, it turns out, was the result of neglect for chronic, congenital conditions t... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4997751 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:57:00 +0100 4997751 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3157629&cid=t_113000_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fchurchillian-fortitude.html   Sir Winston Churchill by webcarveView more Sir winston churchill Photo Sculptures  Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in November 1942 William Rivers Pitt is having trouble finding a sense of measurable accomplishment after ten years of hard work in the front lines. I empathize and concur, to a degree. He starts out thus:t r u t h o u t | Go: "I've been writing about unbelievably bad news for more than a decade now, so when the New Year came around this time, I made up my mind to try and come up with something to write about that was optimistic, positive, more upbeat, or something."But in the end he finally comes to this conclusion:The Left has done some truly amazing thin... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3157629 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:01:00 +0100 3157629 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2898924&cid=t_113000_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F9ZQUMRpP5B4%2F Renowned Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky reflects on the legacy of communism 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall in today’s Cato podcast. According to him, the failure of Russia to acknowledge the criminal nature of its communist past—as was rightfully done in the case of Nazism after its demise—in large part explains the return of authoritarianism in Russia. There don’t seem to be any celebrations of the fall of communism planned in Russia, and the West is currently consumed with major issues including how to deal with Iran, the global financial crisis, etc. But valiant efforts to remind the world of the horrors of communism include the compelling new documentary, The Soviet Story, which features Bukovsky and new evidence of Soviet complicity with the Nazis. Join us fo... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2898924 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:51:56 +0100 2898924 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2442342&cid=t_113000_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fbob-altmeyer-authoritarians.html There are many books one should have read, but of course has not due to questions of money, access or the fact that they are so intractably dull that they are inaccessible. Books of this sort seem traditionally to be given press runs of three hundred or so, destined to be buried safely in academic libraries, where it can be safely assumed that those who do have access can be trusted to not make use of the insights contained therein to upset any apple-carts.Academia and most academics are, after all, entirely dependent upon the status quo ante; it hardly requires great degrees of coercion to inspire a little caution regarding the danger of getting crosswise of cultural preconceptions.Those dangers are very real, of long and noble vintage, have manifested in various ugly ways, and frankly, h... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2442342 Thu, 21 May 2009 19:59:00 +0100 2442342 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2376556&cid=t_113000_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fabuse-excuse.html A Disgruntled Republican: Regarding Torture: "It is worth keeping in mind, that the CIA was not operating in a vacuum. This was not just George W. Bush and Dick Cheney acting independently or the CIA going it alone. There was Congressional oversight. Top legislators knew of interrogations. The CIA briefed Democrats and Republicans on the congressional intelligence committees more than 30 times about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques. Congress could have stopped it. Congress did not object or withhold funding.Among those who were briefed and tacitly approved the techniques were many of the same Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, who now want to prosecute George W. Bush. We should keep in mind, that these techniques occurred in the aftermath of 9/11 when everyone thought that anot... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2376556 Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:21:00 +0100 2376556 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2349321&cid=t_113000_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fbitter-low-hanging-fruit-begins-to-fall.html Pennsylavnia cop killer obsessed with conspiracy theories: "Richard Andrew Poplawski was a young man convinced the nation was secretly controlled by a cabal that would eradicate freedom of speech, take away his guns and use the military to enslave the citizenry.His online profile suggests someone at once lonely and seething. He wrote of burning the backs of both of his hands, the first time with a cigarette, the second time for symmetry. He subscribed to conspiracy theories and, by January 2007, was posting photographs of his tattoos on white supremacist Web site Stormfront. Among his ambitions: 'to accumulate enough 'I punched that [expletive] so hard' stories to match my old man.'"It seems like I've been writing about this sort of thing from various angles for years now. Bad ethics, poor... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2349321 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:35:00 +0100 2349321 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2083955&cid=t_113000_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F01%2Fmobile-phones-in-nhs.html NHS hospital new pay phone systemThere is a wonderful short scene in the first episode of the West Wing when Toby Zeigler ridicules the ban on mobile phone usage on aeroplanes. (I could not find the clip on YouTube and I don’t know how to upload it – help!). There has always been a similar ban on mobile phones in UK hospitals. The unspoken hush-hush hidden agenda was assumed to be that mobile phones might interfere with machines that go ping causing sudden and unexpected deaths. As Toby would tell you, that is complete bollocks.More plausibly, perhaps, you might think that someone decided that the constant use of mobiles might be irritating to staff and other patients. And so it might, but that was not the reason for the ban either. The reason mobile phones were banned in hospitals was... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2083955 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:46:00 +0100 2083955 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1256207&cid=t_113000_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F02%2Fhas-it-come-to-this.html Iain Dale prints a letter about a seemingly trivial matter which makes me want to reach for my revolver. (Source: NHS Blog Doctor) NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1256207 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:18:00 +0100 1256207 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1216453&cid=t_113000_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F02%2Fcall-for-scientific-authoritarianism.html I have warned repeatedly that we suffer from "expertitis," my term for the tendency to hand the most important policy decisions over to "experts." Now, a well known environmental author named David Shearman has written an hysterical piece urging that we toss aside democracy and adopt world authoritarianism to impliment the "scientific consensus" on global warming and other so-called world emergencies. And he holds tyrannical China (forced abortions, infanticide, killing prisoners for organs, repression of dissent, Tiananmen Square, etc. ad nauseum) up as the exemplar because it banned plastic bags! From the article:The ban in China will save importation and use of five million tons of oil used in plastic bag manufacture, only a drop in the ocean of the world oil well. But the importance in... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1216453 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:58:00 +0100 1216453 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=587990&cid=t_113000_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2007%2F05%2Forielly-less-nuanced-than-father.html In this study, O'Reilly is a heavier and less-nuanced user of the propaganda devices than Coughlin."tag: Hate Speech, Hate Radio, conservative radio, Authoritarianism, integrety. Bill O'Rielly, Fair and BalancedYou can syndicate this site using our atom feed. (Source: Graphictruth) Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=587990 Thu, 03 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 587990 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=551374&cid=t_113000_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2007%2F04%2Fauthoritarian-reflex.html 3 Generals Spurn the Position of War 'Czar' - washingtonpost.comThe authoritarian reflex to a failed policy is not to examine the policy, but to assume that those entrusted with the implementation were not "up to the task." The answer is always more power, concentrated more densely, with fewer checks upon the authority in question.Now, the idea of a "War Czar" empowered to do the job right with the authority to make militarily sensible decisions based on the reality of the situation is appealing, even to this anti-authoritarian. I'm not really so much opposed to the idea of authoritative people having power as the opposite, the assumption that the power to enforce one's authority grants one the magical ability to make wise and prudent decisions. And I see that this idea comes from the latt... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=551374 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0100 551374