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From: cjh@petsd.UUCP (Chris Henrich)
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Subject: Re: Science and Freud
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Date: Tue, 20-May-86 19:08:00 EDT
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In article <13849@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Tom Tedrick) writes:
>
>Pop psychology in the form of mass cultism (EST for example) has
>misled millions of naive people, and is highly dangerous to society
>as well as to the individual.

Can this danger be demonstrated?  A convincing demonstration
would be an example of some clearly evil event which was
caused by EST and would not have happened without EST.

By "evil" I mean more than just "boring and obnoxious."  Loss
of life, long term hospitalization, jail sentences, and divorce
are serious enough to qualify.

Have I forgotten the growing crime rate, the breakup of "the"
family, the national malaise (J. Carter, 1979)?  No.  I just
do not see that pop psychology made these things (or any other
unwelcome trends you care to mention) worse.  Nor that if pop
psychology were suppressed (how, pray tell?) these trends
would have been alleviated.

Regards,
Chris

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