Episode 501: The Salem Witch Trials Part II - Titters Over Time
Added 2022-08-06 00:34:29 +0000 UTCThe boys are back to continue the tale of Salem's Witches, who at this point have become a major issue in several New England communities, and as various "witches" are round up, one after another, the Salem Witch Trials themselves begin.
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P.S. Another HUGE reason conversion disorder is still in the DSM-5 and believed in by some doctors of all fields, and just never talked about in the hope that not enough people from other scientific fields will notice and ask what the hell they're doing with this quackery, is the fear of being sued by all the patients they've ever harmed by labelling them with a term that's just an excuse to stop investigating the real cause or admit that the answer can't be found yet (leading to decades-late diagnosis, preventable disability and often post-mortem diagnosis) and the emotional bias against ever fairly analysing the possibility that you have been wrong, ESPECIALLY when you have been arrogant and smug about it and shown contempt for your patients, so very few doctors ever follow-up on all the patients they've ever diagnosed or thought this about, to find out if they ever got a real diagnosis. If they did, research shows, they'd find that every single patient they'd ever thoughtthis about, later gets proof of the real cause or has signs or proof of the real cause on autopsy (or, in a few cases, is proven by being overheard admitting it or filmed doing something they said they could never ever do, to have been faking their symptoms or deliberately harming themselves to give themselves the symptoms, e.g. that woman who pretended to have cancer). Lying exists, there's objective proof of that, just not conversion disorder.
2022-08-12 09:29:51 +0000 UTCThese episodes have been terrific (and horrific). Thank you, as always, for taking a nuanced approach to the subject matter. However, Ben’s “I’ve learned a lot from popsicle sticks,” at the end may have been the best bit.
Ashley
2022-08-07 04:08:22 +0000 UTCI think we can all agree, everyone needs a Titters.
Mikeypizzle
2022-08-06 18:37:11 +0000 UTCCan we get a shirt that says “i sucked the devils d*** in Salem, Massachusetts”
2022-08-06 02:05:41 +0000 UTCTwo hours!!!
Eileen
2022-08-06 00:59:27 +0000 UTC
