All too familiar.
And Newton invented gravity!
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I’m going to guess there’s a decent number of entirely uncredited women as well.
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Those are some of the names that a literal few seconds of searching found. I agree that a bit more digging would absolutely turn up women and other people involved. (Each of the people listed no doubt had yet other people working with them, no matter who’s name ends up on the patent or in the historical report.)
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On the one hand, motherfuckers are denying treatment to disabled children.
On the other hand, the treatment they’re cutting down on is (widely considered) harmful because its design to to train a child to ignore and hide their distress. At worst it actively causes distress while punishing the child for any sign that it is, and also trains them to never deny a request from an authority figure (and the definition of what is an ‘authority figure’ is left open). The only reason it’s so popular is because its practitioners write broken “papers”, quote each other, and have good marketing which has convinced the insurance companies and many parents that it’s the only treatment for autism. (That is, it’s not an effective treatment at all if what you want at the end is a healthy and active autistic adult.)
They’re both fucking evil, and I hope they both die.
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Conahan has been in home confinement in Florida since 2020 due to concerns over the coronavirus. All the recipients were on compassionate release during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the White House, in a statement, these recipients have “successfully reintegrated into their families and communities and have shown that they deserve a second chance.”
So, when the pandemic was declared to be “over,” none of these people went back to jail? Now I’m wondering who decided which inmates were eligible for “compassionate release.” I read a lot of articles like this about crowded conditions and incarcerated people unable to get out.
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The government will no doubt try, and will likely succeed in preventing Mangione’s defense from presenting evidence about UHC’S deadly crimes of denial of care as an argument either against guilt or even as a mitigating circumstance in deciding on the penalty in case of conviction. Given his family’s money, he should locate an attorney of the caliber of the late William Kunstler or Leonard Wingless — lawyers who knew how to get jurors to see the politics of an alleged crime and to ignore the skewed instructions of judges in steering them towards supporting the arguments and evidence of the state.
Maybe Mangione or his family should call New York attorney Marty Stolar, who managed to get the Camden 28, a group of mostly Catholic anti-war activists who raided a Camden, NJ draft board in 1971 and destroyed thousands of records of young men classified 1-A (suitable to be drafted) acquitted despite their guilt having been documented by FBI agents who had secretly monitored the whole break-in. In their case the jury, convinced by the testimony of defense witness and leftist activist historian Howard Zinn that their principled act of civil disobedience against an unjust war, and the widespread opposition to that war by that time, merited jury nullification: Jurors, thinking for themselves about the charges and the evidence, decided no crime had been committed.
Because of their unanimous decision, the government couldn’t appeal or retry the case.
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He’s going to be pardoned in a little over 30 days, so it’s just a month’s inconvenience for him.
(Unfortunately, I have a nagging feeling that this is one of Dump’s stupid promises that he will keep even though he won’t get anything in return.)
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This poor man… 
I hope he’s gonna be okay…
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Oh, but it’s even worse than that, as we’ve constructed a whole set of mythologies around Columbus to create a heroic individual narrative that’s the opposite of reality. The reality, that Columbus was a horrible idiot who grossly miscalculated the size of the Earth, people pointed out he was wrong, he couldn’t accept it, and as a result ran into America, completely by accident, because he thought that’s where India should be, was completely and utterly unacceptable. Americans can’t deal with people achieving things (and being rewarded/remembered) due purely to sheer, dumb luck. It has to be the result of individual accomplishments - hard work, intelligence, and, most importantly, seeing things that no one else can see. So Americans had to invent weird stories (that everyone thought the world was flat, except Columbus) wherein he challenged the received wisdom, turned out to be correct, and history has, as a result, rightly rewarded him for being such a brave, trailblazing maverick and savvy businessman. (So it didn’t matter who else was involved, or who actually did all the work - the myth is that it was all brought about as the result of one person’s unique vision.)
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These days he’d be saying the he invented the EV.
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On the one hand, Columbus didn’t do any mythologizing himself, that was all down to future generations of Americans - on the other hand, Elno is a champion self-mythologizer, but has (internet) hordes and the press eager to run with, expand on, and add to his myths, despite the facts being well documented…
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