# Do any of you know what "science" is?

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**Created:** [July 26, 2009, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-know-what-science-is/504298 "2009-07-26T05:10:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-any-of-you-know-what-science-is/504298/276 "2009-07-28T23:20:36Z")

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I for one am amused by **StS** ’s view that

> [@Where did David Icke get this idea about Reptilians?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-david-icke-get-this-idea-about-reptilians/504163/4):
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> Schizophrenia is not really a mental illness. Most anthropologists agree that the prophets, fakirs, saints, and shamans of times past were schizophrenic, and there is a large body of research about this fascinating condition. For example, it’s been found that schizophrenics who are allowed to listen to their “voices” without interference tend to be much higher functioning than those whose “voices” are suppressed through drugs or therapy. This suggests that schizophrenics have a traditional role to perform in human culture, and that it has become a problem only because we have robbed schizophrenics of their jobs.

Combined with his politics, I can’t help but be reminded of the [SPK](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Patients%27_Collective)

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> The Socialist Patients’ Collective (in German the Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv) also known as the SPK and the Patients’ Front (in German Patientenfront), or PF, was a leftist German patients’ group of the late 1960s/early 1970s fighting against medicine and doctors as enemies of the “patients’ class”, seeing capitalism as the reason for illness and trying to see “illness as a weapon” against capitalist society.

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