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Semi-retired Shrink. Occ. Writer, Behav. Genetics Critic. Yoga/Eastern Phil., 35 Year Vegetarian, Det. Lions, Swimming, Mediocre Singing, Daime, Dog is Corey.

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@StevePittelli

Steve Pittelli, MD

6 months

Putting up a preprint for the poster I’ll have at #ASHG2023 questioning whether BG is a null field. Hopefully an easy and entertaining read. Debate welcome, but you gotta read it first. I affectionately call it my “Oak Island” piece.

The Question That Must Be Asked: Is Behavioral Genetics a Null Field?

For more than half a century, the field of behavioral genetics has touted studies claiming that differences in personality, intelligence and susceptibility to psychiatric disorders have a significant...

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@shi_huang5 This is pretty close to what the Nazis were saying, dude.

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@toadmeister “If only they had been nicer to Hitler and let him speak,” is an interesting twist.

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@kenklippenstein Cuomo asking that question out loud is telling.

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@bariweiss @toadmeister You are the mainstream press

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My grandfather and grandmother came from a poor village in Italy. Neither had much education. My grandfather worked in the coal mines for twenty years, got black lung and then stared a small market in Philadelphia. My father is an MD, uncle PhD, I am an MD. #heyjohnkelly

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@bariweiss @CraigSilverman It is beyond parody that you are given space in The NY Times for this nonsense. Nevertheless, any fool offered six figures for an Op-Ed gig can’t be faulted for taking it, so you have to blame The NY Times, again, for hiring without considering merit or personal integrity.

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@lastpositivist “In 2002, Yglesias was a strong supporter of invading Iraq, Iran and North Korea, calling the countries on his blog ‘evil’ and stating that ‘we should take them all out’”

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@four4thefire @todgoldberg Or took all the trees and put ‘em in a tree museum

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@thepointsguy Who the hell is getting on a cruise ship right now?

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@DrDebraSoh That it was fake? That Bill Gates was putting microchips in it? That hospitals are pretending have patients in the ICU with Covid? That doctors are preventing the cure-alls HCQ and Ivermectin because, something? Which of these were right?

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@michaelbarthel @pareene That's a reasonable protest if they are actually charging 50 cents for one packet.

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@embeeonhere I had a friend who, on a road trip, would apply for jobs at the McDonald’s we would stop at. We would be waiting in the car and he would show up with a big smile and tell us he got the job.

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@StevePittelli

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@NBCNews In other words, "We got your tuition money, so it's time to close shop."

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@drdan041 @AntiFashGordon @fakemikemulloy Same for doctors

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@michaelschweitz I'm still trying to get someone to name their dog Steve.

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My review of Kathryn Paige Harden’s “The Genetic Lottery” is available at my blog: I tried to make this more accessible for those who might have an interest in the subject, but don’t necessarily have a knowledge of the nuts and bolts of such research.

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@StevePittelli

Steve Pittelli, MD

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@Cam_Lopez8 Maybe replace “lost” with “sold”. Might be worse than just incompetence and neglect.

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@davidsirota They don’t care about winning. They would rather lose. They are paid the same. Even more.

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@toadmeister I like that logic: all of our people who initiated this have quit or run away, so it’s the fault of those who opposed them for trying to pick up the pieces without following what the escapees wanted in the first place.

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@WDavidHill @BehaviorGenetic @EdinUniLBC @genscot @aidanbutty @nm_davies @StuartJRitchie @mcintosh2001 I know I won't make any friends saying this, but this stuff is shameful.

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@StevePittelli

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@kenklippenstein It was never worth half of what he paid.

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@StevePittelli

Steve Pittelli, MD

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I recently wrote to the UK Biobank (haven’t heard back, yet) re: the study below and requested that the authors of that study be prevented from utilizing the UK Biobank in any future studies. My letter here: Thread… 1/

Genome-wide analysis identifies molecular systems and 149 genetic loci associated with income

Nature Communications - Household income is used as a marker of socioeconomic position, a trait that is associated with better physical and mental health. Here, Hill et al. report a genome-wide...

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@StevePittelli

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@LizMcLeod I’m not voting for this and that’s final.

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@sethpalmer3 You can’t call it that, unless it’s from the Cardboardeaux region of France.

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@mckellogs @KevinMKruse A larger question is why this person is getting air time in the first place?

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@G_Bone_ @OneEyedAO @tarenceray Imagine...

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It is just unfathomable to me that this book gets this much free publicity. The problem is that much of what is printed is accepted as fact by the general public, leaving a perception of genetic determinism that is dangerous and false.

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Kathryn Paige Harden: ‘Studies have found genetic variants that correlate with going further in...

The behaviour geneticist explains how biology could have an influence on academic attainment – and why she takes an anti-eugenics approach

www.theguardian.com

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@bad_takes @BAKKOOONN So she had a NYT's column is on television news and political shows and feels she doesn't have a venue for her stupid ideas.

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@ChuckModi1 @YourAnonNews If you want news coverage you need about 6 Proud Boys there running around with a thin blue line flag.

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@charlesmurray You’re supposed to say 5 years, Chuck.

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@brianstelter @KevinMKruse @SteveDoocy Also not cages

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@_RichardHall @NavinPokala Dude, I marched in dozens and we were screamed at regularly. About three quarters of our marches didn’t even make it in the papers and the ones that did would usually highlight the one or two counter protesters with a “both sides” kind of coverage. It was very difficult.

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@ndrewfranklin @JohnHinckley20 Not quite

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@StevePittelli

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A GWAS for the aristocrats trying to find genes for “occupational status and prestige,” with statistical sophistry to claim it has a genetic basis. Disgusting. I might critique later, but for now I want to discuss the deceptive use of the @uk_biobank . 1/

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Genome-wide association study of occupational status and prestige identifies 106 genetic variants...

Socioeconomic status (SES) stratifies society and impacts our health and life course. We conducted the first sociologically informed GWAS on occupational status and prestige examining the Internati...

www.biorxiv.org

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@StevePittelli

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@WCCO Bogus. Find me an anarchist that would spray paint Biden 2020. They did this themselves for attention.

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@charlesmurray Can you give us a date, Charles, because I've been hearing that, "...within a few years" line for a good 25 years?

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@ajbauer But how do I know if you are really AJ Bauer?

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@roqets @npinto628 Last tackle, as well

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@steve_lieber I was a programmer in the 80’s and I recall us saying, “What if these programs are still around in 2000?”

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@eawilloughby @AlexGiannelis “Sociopolitical phenotypes”

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@fasc1nate Lincoln" and "Kennedy" each have seven letters. Both assassins were born in '39 and were known by their three names, composed of fifteen letters. Booth ran from a theater and was caught in a warehouse; Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

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@NickKristof @washingtonpost And when was that realization? Did it make it into your paper? Because, this is the first I've heard of it, so unless it happened yesterday, I'd be interested in knowing why I'm only hearing this today?

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@StevePittelli

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@AlexTISYoung Do you understand how an aristocracy works? This is exactly the opposite of what this shows.

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@PhallusFrosty @9mm_smg Dude thinks he’s smart and posts this.

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Steve Pittelli, MD

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@capitalismandf1 @AlexTISYoung I’m saying that’s what it shows. An aristocracy. People marry within their social class over generations. They will thus have some genetic variants in common, that have nothing to do with making them more aristocratic.

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@MattGertz @chick_in_kiev Another option would be to impeach him...

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@Cernovich What do you call people who beat the tough guy war drums but don’t enlist?

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@G_Bone_ @OneEyedAO @tarenceray Thanks. We keep trying, but they cut us off at the path.

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@SirSoccer @rhscsmtms @JimGriffith_SV @LizzyTexBorden @Agenda21Observr @davidhogg111 That is exactly what I’m saying. They left. They were able to function, because of medications. Before that, they couldn’t function due to mental illness. What Reagan did in the 80’s as President, was kick people out who still needed to be in institutions. Big difference.

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@NewYorker Can Progressives be convinced that eugenics has a sunny side? Well, they were before and it didn’t turn out too well. My review of Harden’s book and the bad science behind it:

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@NBCNews You’ve been putting out this story once a year for the past 25 years.

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@Mediaite You could have stopped at S.E. Cupp.

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I suppose that these kinds of statistical arguments are necessary, but I’d like to advocate for common sense. The idea that you can look at wealth distribution in England for the last 400 years and and conclude that wealth is sustained due to genetics is ludicrous on its face. 1/

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@DavidNakamura @ashleyfeinberg @jdawsey1 @VP Wasn't this supposed to be a PR, dog and pony show?

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@TwinklingTania @Trillburne That’s like a Trump rally

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@CongressmanHice @AOC Concentration camp defender is being dishonest here.

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@_danalvarenga @thankyouseitan Is this supposed to be touching? Give them back to their parents, for God's sake.

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@WorkingClassLI @NateArsenic @LarrySchweikart @Peoples_Pundit Imagine if these were numbers for Bernie. They would be endlessly doing I told you so’s.

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@Dr_LEMcCullough @doctorveera This is the perfect way to only give grants to the same people over and over again.

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Steve Pittelli, MD

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@reddyrc @emrazz Ro, You walk by a 2 unit building on fire. One side has a case with 10,000 viable, frozen embryos. The other side has one baby in a crib. You only have time to save either the baby or the case, but not both. Which do you choose?

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@SirSoccer @rhscsmtms @JimGriffith_SV @LizzyTexBorden @Agenda21Observr @davidhogg111 Someone is trying to rewrite history. Many hospitals closed in the 70’s, true, but that was due to the advent of medications (Thorazine and Lithium, primarily) that made it possible for SOME patients to leave institutions. Reagan just forced people out of institutions.

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@Lollardfish He supported the Iraq War. Should have been it, then.

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@thedailybeast @mattklewis You missed a step

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@HeerJeet This is the issue of our time. Nothing is going to change in an Aristocracy masquerading as a Democracy.

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@yashar @Lovemypupper While you’re at it, you can get Colin Kapernick and maybe have a competitive team this year.

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@_RichardHall @NavinPokala Fox sure did. CNN was not sympathetic, either. For the most, though, there was no anti war coverage in the US. Getting a letter to the editor in your local paper was as good as it got.

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@sfmnemonic The problem for the NYT's is that they have to double down everytime this guy writes a column or admit that everyone else was right all along.

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@NBCNews I never keep more than $500,000.00 in jewelry unattended in my Lamborghini for that very reason.

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@elonmusk @SamTalksTesla @tlowdon @daniellevitt22 Covid has really pulled the curtain from what was left of the Elon Musk mystique.

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Steve Pittelli, MD

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@McKayMSmith @CleverTitleTK When we appoint a CIA Director involved in torturing people, look the other way when peaceful protesters are killed (even blaming them), rabidly support bombing people, openly defend dropping two nuclear bombs on cities, napalm, etc., let’s not be befuddled by the lack of remorse

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@davelevitan @KevinMKruse It amazes me that people still take news networks seriously. The only time I watch them is when they are blaring at the gym, and it gets me completely angry and worked up. Never watch them otherwise.

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Trying to figure behavior by looking at genes is akin to saying something about the driver of a car by examining the wiring of a their car. You can correlate the wiring of a Prius vs a Hummer to make a generalization about their drivers, but it has nothing to do with the wiring.

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@ajbauer Just pay the 8 dollars and your question will be answered.

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@CaNerdIan @jaubert_moniker @m8urnett In our defense, none of us expected our crap code from the 1980’s to still be around by 2000. I vaguely remember someone asking why we only use 2 digits for the year and a few disinterested chuckles followed, but that might not be a real memory.

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@ewanbirney @GoodwinMJ If we are talking about behavioral genetics, we are not on the “cusp” of anything. This belief is what drives race science bros. Charles Murray, for example, has been pushing the “within 5 to 10 years” claim for decades.

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@nxthompson "... and unicorns."

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@acechhh @Cerebral__Clown You mean dit.

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@RobertMaguire_ @Lovemypupper Offer him an ice cream cone

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@AlpertReyes @BrandyLJensen Some would call it assault and battery.

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@JohnKennedyLA Doesn’t see the irony

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@chucktodd They know who it was. There is no point in reporting such drivel. Even if they didn't know, they can just ask the Navy who made the request. This kind of stuff is really disingenuous.

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@eawilloughby @AlexGiannelis Those aren’t phenotypes.

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@noamscheiber It’s worth noting that the economists who bashed unions were being rewarded financially for doing so. Ironically, economists rarely address how the wealthy control the workings of the economy to serve their interests.

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I keep hearing about a “scientific consensus” claiming that there is some presumed genetic or biological mechanism contributing to depression and other psych diagnoses. Who are these “concensors”? What makes one qualified to be a part of it? No one ever asked me. @awaisaftab

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@WeedMubarak

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@ThatEricAlper All my favorite songs are more than 20 years old.

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@NBCNews The problem is Trump. Why isn't this obvious? The protests might have more specific causes, but they are about Trump in the broad sense.

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@kenklippenstein @ryangrim I’ve seen a lot of crime shows and maybe there’s another possibility, here.

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Interesting study showing that even cloned fish have behavioral differences at birth and these differences increase over time. Would like to have seen a control to determine whether genetics has any influence in their behavior at all.

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The emergence and development of behavioral individuality in clonal fish

Nature Communications - You’re unique just like everyone else. But when does such individuality appear? Laskowski et al. find that clonal fish show unique behavioral patterns on their first...

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@gdebenedetti @KevinMKruse The idea behind their donations was to keep centrist dems in power. They don't want to risk an actual leftist in office. Whether donating or running, their purpose is to keep the party toothless.

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@Queen_ofthe_Lab Funny that Nature publishes this.

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@SteveStuWill Every Harvard grad I’ve met was either a legacy, or had some connections.

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@NBCNews Well, I admit I predicted they wouldn’t spend a single day jail, but...

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@mkraju @Lovemypupper We are effectively in a dictatorship.

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@KevinMKruse I think what he's trying to say is that she's black.

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The field of behavioral genetics has thrived on unquestioning puff pieces like this for 3 decades. It’s shameful and I’m tired of it.

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@reveal @carlzimmer That said, medicating children without their consent that aren't specifically diagnosed with a treatable mental disorder is not appropriate and in many cases could be considered malpractice.

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@SirSoccer @rhscsmtms @JimGriffith_SV @LizzyTexBorden @Agenda21Observr @davidhogg111 @nytimes You are conflating deinstitutionalization related to civil liberties, which has to do with the criteria for holding someone against their will in a mental institution (changed largely due to med response), with Reagan shutting down hospitals and booting people to the streets.

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@Seamus_Malek It’s interesting to see a person who is so devoid of any real beliefs get taken seriously.

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@aamyrivv254 @KateAronoff All she did is vote for a war

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