[Xmca-l] Re: Watch "Emails Show American Psychological Association Secretly Worked with Bush Admin to Enable Torture" on YouTube

[Peter Smagorinsky]

I sent this video to a colleague with deep APA ties, who said:

Within APA circles this has been discussed for about 4 years - all the information I've seen indicates APA wasn't involved but they have hired an external law firm to investigate.  I hope there is nothing there but who knows?

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From: xmca-l-bounces+smago=uga.edu@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-l-bounces+smago=uga.edu@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Huw Lloyd
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Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Watch "Emails Show American Psychological Association Secretly Worked with Bush Admin to Enable Torture" on YouTube

Here's the guardian article on it:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/30/psychologists-bush-officials-torture-program

Psychologists playing to the tune of their employers and sources of funding
-- who'd have thought it?  Next we'll be hearing that psychologists are used to maintain the status quo in education and that they're no better than "suet doctors"...

Huw


On 5 May 2015 at 21:39, mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Note the absence of repercussions in the American Psychological 
> Association.
> mike
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Tom Richardson < 
> tom.richardson3@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Paul - I can't face watching the video.
> > I'm reminded of the concept of the 'self-hating Jew' by the 
> > preparedness
> of
> > professionals in their position to collaborate in the aggression 
> > towards perceived enemies- the rationale goes: "if a citizen is not 
> > prepared to support all 'defensive' actions of their 
> > state/religioon/culture, they
> are
> > seen as willing the destruction, that declared or undeclared, all 
> > persons are seen as wishing upon the embattled religion/state/group. 
> > I guess
> coming
> > from a naive stance, I didn't understand that not everyone would 
> > have a similar moral position of "Do no evil." I hope that any 
> > revolution I'm involved in has some different moral practice - I 
> > wonder if that's possible?
> > Solidarity
> > Tom
> >
> > On 5 May 2015 at 20:54, Dr. Paul C. Mocombe 
> > <pmocombe@mocombeian.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > https://youtu.be/Ovad2_D7NGs
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Dr. Paul C. Mocombe
> > > President
> > > The Mocombeian Foundation, inc.
> > > www.mocombeian.com
> > > www.readingroomcurriculum.com
> > > www.paulcmocombe.info
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> "Each new level of development is a new relevant context." C.H. 
> Waddington
>