Moonstruck

Thu May 3 04:21:04 CDT 2018

"We still need a hundred-and-fourth for the bridge." Chuckled aridly. The bridge, die Brücke, being his pet name for the experiment he was helping the community hospital run on effects of LSD-25, mescaline, psilocybin, and related drugs on a large sample of suburban housewives. The bridge inward. "When can you let us fit you into our schedule?" --- The Crying of Lot 49 (chapter one)

> ... Patients were subjected to high-voltage electroshock therapy several times a day, forced into drug-induced sleeps that could last months and injected with megadoses of LSD.

After reducing them to a childlike state – at times stripping them of basic skills such as how to dress themselves or tie their shoes – Cameron would attempt to reprogram them by bombarding them with recorded messages for up to 16 hours at a time. First came negative messages about their inadequacies, followed by positive ones, in some cases repeated up to half a million times.

“He couldn’t get his patients to listen to them enough so he put speakers in football helmets and locked them on their heads,” said Johnson. “They were going crazy banging their heads into walls, so he then figured he could put them in a drug induced coma and play the tapes as long as he needed.”

Along with intensive bouts of electroshock therapy, Johnson’s grandmother was given injections of LSD on 14 occasions. “She said that made her feel like her bones were melting. She would say: ‘I don’t want these,’” said Johnson. “And the doctors and nurses would say to her: ‘You’re a bad wife, you’re a bad mother. If you wanted to get better, you would do this for your family. Think about your daughter.’” ... <

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/03/montreal-brainwashing-allan-memorial-institute

(To keep this balanced: For some participants, at least among those being voluntarily involved, MKUltra was a basically positive experience that had nothing to do with abuse. For an example see chapter 4 of "The Knee of Listening" by Adi Da who became experienced in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Palo Alto in 1962.)

Am 11.03.2015 um 11:22 schrieb 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

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 11:07 AM, alice malice<alicewmalice at gmail.com><mailto: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

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><mailto:alicewmalice at gmail.com>  wrote:
http://issues.org/23-2/br_roland-3/
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