Accidental Blogger

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First, maybe Tom Cruise does know the history of psychology.  Link.  Or at least was right that exercise can be as effective as antidepressants for people with mild depression (but not moderate-to-severe depression).

Second, locking drug users up in China.  Link.  Minimum two-year stay, no treatment, ghastly conditions.  I'm not sure I buy the popular addiction-as-disease paradigm, and I don't really think Western treatment facilities are effective, but China sure makes us look pretty good.  What's going on over there is just beastly.

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  1. In the second link, what is described as happening sounds like a new version of ‘Shanghaiing’,with forced labor on land rather than at sea.
    Don’t large numbers of the US prison population (also consisting of people incarcerated on drug charges) provide similar types of forced labor for pittances in wages?
    What is going on in China may be beastly, but what is going on in the US prison system ain’t beautiful, either.

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