Boo-hoo. I have never listened to Savage, I don't even know what his voice sounds like. But this criticism is crybaby stuff. "His science is wrong because he hurt my feelings" should not be coming out of the mouth (or pen) of anyone, let alone a professor (even a "professor of government", which itself is a frightening thing).
If we allowed the purveyors of perpetual victimhood free reign, nobody would be "normal", every last person would have some "condition" attached. "Subclinical" this, "asymptomatic" that, "high functioning", "spectrum disorders", etc etc etc. Legitimate terms, warped beyond any rational medical meaning, are used to feed a spectrum of interests (pharmaceuticals, adult babysitters therapists, folks who just want more handouts, crappy parents looking to shift the blame).
When I was a kid, words like awkward, shy, and withdrawn, or energetic, loud, and troublemaker, were used to describe children now "diagnosed" with autism or ADHD. The supposedly blighted children (by today's standards) are all normal functioning adults today. Hell, I probably would have been labeled autistic because I mixed (informal) sign language and English in near equal proportions until age 4. Is that unusual? YES! Is it a medical condition? Of course not.
If anything, projecting ones own hypochondria is a mental sickness that needs to be addressed.
If we allowed the purveyors of perpetual victimhood free reign, nobody would be “normal”, every last person would have some “condition” attached. “Subclinical” this, “asymptomatic” that, “high functioning”, “spectrum disorders”, etc etc etc. Legitimate terms, warped beyond any rational medical meaning, are used to feed a spectrum of interests (pharmaceuticals, adult babysitters therapists, folks who just want more handouts, crappy parents looking to shift the blame).
When I was a kid, words like awkward, shy, and withdrawn, or energetic, loud, and troublemaker, were used to describe children now “diagnosed” with autism or ADHD. The supposedly blighted children (by today's standards) are all normal functioning adults today. Hell, I probably would have been labeled autistic because I mixed (informal) sign language and English in near equal proportions until age 4. Is that unusual? YES! Is it a medical condition? Of course not.
If anything, projecting ones own hypochondria is a mental sickness that needs to be addressed.
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Little Mickey Savage is dat youse?
I think in a few hundred years we will look at these braindoctors like we look at barbers from 300 years ago, where bloodletting was treatment for everything.