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The Skeptics Guide #887 - Jul 9 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Iht This Is a Treatment for Insanity?

Doctor henry grotton became the famous superintendent of the trenton psychiatric hospital from 19 o seven to 19 33. During that time he and his assistants removed 11 thousand teeth and performed 600, forty five surgeries to remove organs in the belief this would cure mental illness. He was also just a terrible scientist. His records were abysmal. And when there were independent audits of what he was doing, first of all, he killed fully 30 % of his patients. But art, he was a harp. Not only was he, again, another wack job, horrible clinitian who had respect for his patients and for the hypocratic oath and whatever,. He was just a

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