191. Michael Gordin on the Fringe of Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Invention of Madness
Post modern thought is to take a category that has been taken for granted and say, what happens if we mess with it a little. Sometimes categories aren't that robust, especially if you look at things in a historical trajectory. What counts as mad is pretty different a overtime. And we can learn something about how we think about our the own way we deal with people that we now call mentally ill. But there are lots of bad examples too.
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