Moonstruck

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

The mad scientists from the real world are not at all  "prototype 
outsider(s)" ...

Donald Ewen Cameron, while he was doing the worst MKUltra torture of 
all, "became known worldwide as the first chairman of the World 
Psychiatric Association as well as president of the American and 
Canadian psychiatric associations." The guy was Mr. Psychiatry per 
excellence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ewen_Cameron

And Hubertus Strughold, "the father of Space Medicine," who knew about 
the experiments with inmates in the Dachau concentration camp and who 
himself experimented with epileptic children whom he treated with oxygen 
deprivation in his Berlin laboratory, was already in the late 1920s a 
pioneer in the emerging discipline of aviation medicine. "In 1928 
Strughold traveled to the United States as a Rockefeller Foundation 
Fellow and conducted specialized research on both aviation medicine and 
physiology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and the 
University of Chicago." Does not sound like a prototypical outsider to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubertus_Strughold

Are Pynchon's sinister persons of science - Maskelyne, Pointsman, 
Hilarius - mad scientists like the one played by Jerry Lewis in "The 
Nutty Professor?" Or, do they represent thanatoid forces beyond that myth?


On 10.03.2015 12:36, Dave Monroe wrote:
> http://www.monstershow.net/screams_of_reason___mad_science_and_modern_culture_3245.htm
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> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 11:07 AM, alice malice<alicewmalice at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>   It is generally conceded that scientists and engineers have somewhat
>> of an image problem
>> http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind02/c7/c7s3.htm
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>> The binary of the mad scientist (Frankenstein) and the super genius
>> (Einstein) needs to be deconstructed. But science, though for lack of
>> effort, seems to making matters worse with its efforts, while the arts
>> are breaking bad all over again.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 7:28 AM, alice malice<alicewmalice at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> http://issues.org/23-2/br_roland-3/
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