Comments - “THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE . . . " - TBD2024-03-29T06:03:41Zhttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=1991841%3ABlogPost%3A913400&xn_auth=no"The book When Prophecy Fails…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2010-04-07:1991841:Comment:9141952010-04-07T20:55:50.972Zcaseyjohttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/caseyjo
"The book When Prophecy Fails by Festinger et.al. [1961] documents such a practice within a fringe religious group. AND THAT tends to make me wonder very hard, about every instance of madness reported in the press perpetrated by fringe religious nuts ever since"<br />
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Yup...I question everything coming from the screw balls........Remember the teletubbies?.......I guess they never converted tinky winky, they they took them off the air.
"The book When Prophecy Fails by Festinger et.al. [1961] documents such a practice within a fringe religious group. AND THAT tends to make me wonder very hard, about every instance of madness reported in the press perpetrated by fringe religious nuts ever since"<br />
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Yup...I question everything coming from the screw balls........Remember the teletubbies?.......I guess they never converted tinky winky, they they took them off the air. From the article:
doubts aro…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2010-04-07:1991841:Comment:9140522010-04-07T19:32:58.733ZZenDoghttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/ZenDog
From the article:<br />
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<div style="margin:30px">doubts arose about the validity of their case studies. Most staffers never met any of the conversion cases during the study period of 1968 through 1977, . . . Clinic staffer Lynn Strenkofsky, who organized patient schedules during this period, says she never dealt with any conversion cases. Marshall and Peggy Shearer, perhaps the clinic's most experienced therapy team in the early 1970s, says they never treated homosexuals and heard virtually nothing…</div>
From the article:<br />
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<div style="margin:30px">doubts arose about the validity of their case studies. Most staffers never met any of the conversion cases during the study period of 1968 through 1977, . . . Clinic staffer Lynn Strenkofsky, who organized patient schedules during this period, says she never dealt with any conversion cases. Marshall and Peggy Shearer, perhaps the clinic's most experienced therapy team in the early 1970s, says they never treated homosexuals and heard virtually nothing about conversion therapy.
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Until he died in 2001 Masters felt confident . . . "We're reporting on 10 years of work with five years of follow-up—and it works."</div>
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No doubt, the research was the product of something Vance Packard would call <i>Whole Systems Management</i> - but they cannot cite specific cases simply because the research never acquires unambiguous, written consent of the research subject.<br />
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The book <i>When Prophecy Fails</i> by Festinger et.al. [1961] documents such a practice within a fringe religious group. AND THAT tends to make me wonder very hard, about every instance of <i>madness</i> reported in the press perpetrated by fringe religious nuts ever since . . . Masters & Johnson is one…tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2010-04-07:1991841:Comment:9138262010-04-07T17:14:05.602Zcaseyjohttps://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/caseyjo
Masters & Johnson is one but it seems no one had seen case files or knew any of the people involved...Hummmm....<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=homosexuality-cure-masters-johnson" target="_blank">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=homosexuality-cure-masters-johnson</a>
Masters & Johnson is one but it seems no one had seen case files or knew any of the people involved...Hummmm....<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=homosexuality-cure-masters-johnson" target="_blank">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=homosexuality-cure-masters-johnson</a>