As a medical student, I immortalized myself with my classmates when I informed a lecturing psychiatry professor that I considered Freud’s theories slightly more credible than the nuns’ tales about guardian angels. The lecturer ignored my obnoxious comment and continued his lecture. But, Freudians have been on the defensive for the past decade. This trend […]

A friend of mine, whose husband was dying of a brain tumor, complained to me that she was unable to get him placed into an experimental protocol that entailed inserting radiation plaques into his skull. She knew of another individual with a brain tumor who was receiving this “advanced” treatment. My response to her was […]

The most disturbing book published in recent memory is Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, by Daniel Jonah Goldenhagen. With overwhelming evidence and logic, Goldenhagen debunks the myth that the Holocaust was the creation of an evil man who terrorized the German people into “following orders.” Rather, he postulates it was the logical […]