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  Allegheny County v. Greater Pittsburgh ACLU, 492 U.S. 573 (1989)...
• Commented on Atheist sign at nativity scene
  Putting up a sign like this is way awesomer than just suing to have the creche (religious display) at the Legislative Building in the state capitol (public property) removed. Of course, as Monique Davis put it . . . [Atheism...
• Commented on Prop 8 - The Musical -- starring Jack Black, Allison Janney, John C. Reilly, Marc Shaiman, and many more...
  Shelby Davis and Tordelback, I respect your argument, but I think it's the wrong direction. More importantly, why should it matter whether a trait is adaptive or not in terms of whether bearers of the trait should have full civil...
• Commented on Self-embedding disorder among teens
  #4, from the article:All the cases in the Ohio study involved girls living in foster homes, group homes or mental health facilities. Many had experienced or witnessed physical or sexual abuse, and most had been diagnosed with depression, anxiety or...
• Commented on Cognitive Therapy is as effective as anti-depressants in chronic depression
  an eight hour anxiety attack with a crushing depression chaser Anonymous, thank you for explaining what it feels like - it sounds horrible and tends to bum people out, but I think it's important for people to know what it's...
• Commented on Cognitive Therapy is as effective as anti-depressants in chronic depression
  If we think of a science as something capable of producing predictive models, of generating testable hypotheses, then psychology has at least the potential to be a science. I think the work of people like Martin Daly and Margo Wilson...
• Commented on Woman has perfect "episodic memory"
  DarkHumour, I feel for you - I completely understand why some people choose to have electroconvulsive therapy (lobotomy might not even be so bad compared to what Jill Price has to go through every day)....
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  Successful forgetting can be a boon - to human beings and to the information systems they inhabit....
• Commented on Cognitive Therapy is as effective as anti-depressants in chronic depression
  I have a friend who works at a dungeon. He says that CBT is an acronym for two things, both of which, coincidentally, will cure your depression if applied correctly....
• Commented on Cognitive Therapy is as effective as anti-depressants in chronic depression
  Hi Noen, my concern wasn't whether the study was controlled, it was how it was controlled. The exact nature of the control can make a big difference in whether an intervention looks effective. In some of the first studies testing...