It’s hard for an American to admit that we have become a country whose President now claims the power to arrest and detain indefinitely – or even order the assassination of — any American citizen that the President – without official charges, trial and conviction – sees as some sort of threat. Future leaders are not likely to give up this power. We’re...

A brain in a jar of nutrients cannot think. “Thinking” is not something that a brain can do all by itself. A brain is a device for managing interactions deriving from the body — all the sensory nerve information and chemical modifying solutions — and then informing the muscles, the organs, what to do about it. Thinking is interaction with the environment...

Perhaps the most maddening thing about banning, censoring, making things secret, is that it is always about privilege: I can know, but you can’t. You can’t handle the truth. Adult to child version: this is for your own good. (You don’t need to know about sex.) The powerful, the elite, the wealthy, the educated, the military, and the underworld all say, “This is...

Pediatr Neurol. 2006 May;34(5):417-8. Compulsive masturbation in infantile autism treated by mirtazapine. Albertini G, Polito E, Sarà M, Di Gennaro G, Onorati P.   Child Developmental Department, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy. Abstract This case report describes a child with a severe autistic syndrome worsened by hypersexual behavior consisting of compulsive...