# Do you think this person is insane?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 1, 2013, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517 "2013-04-01T11:09:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517/21 "2013-04-07T13:35:44Z")
If he’s not mad, I’ll stand fucking.
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### Author:  [@goobledell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goobledell)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517/22 "2013-04-07T14:36:35Z")
I am disappointed to not be invited here (I wrote the essays). Is there any humanity behind these remarks?
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### Author:  [@Lo-Slung\_Denim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lo-Slung_Denim)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517/23 "2013-04-07T15:02:56Z")
Personality disorder. Possible schizo-affective. On the DSM-IV, but functional.
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### Author:  [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517/24 "2013-04-07T15:43:51Z")
From your essay on [Ted Kaczinski:](http://members.efn.org/~wolfe/response.htm)
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> I need a world that’s not so bored to tears. I need a world in which children are invited to act in a play depicting the nude sexual fondness of people like me and my girlfriend.
What’s up with that?
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517/25 "2013-04-07T20:06:01Z")
> [@goobledell](#):
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> I am disappointed to not be invited here (I wrote the essays). Is there any humanity behind these remarks?
Yes, we’re all human. Do you have any responses to my first post in this thread?
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### Author:  [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517/26 "2013-04-07T22:54:11Z")
> [@goobledell](#):
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> I am disappointed to not be invited here (I wrote the essays). Is there any humanity behind these remarks?
Ya right :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517/27 "2013-04-07T23:01:45Z")
> [@Lo-Slung\_Denim](#):
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> Personality disorder. Possible schizo-affective. On the DSM-IV, but functional.
Do you mean schizotypal?
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### Author:  [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517/28 "2013-04-08T00:01:32Z")
> [@goobledell](#):
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> I am disappointed to not be invited here (I wrote the essays). Is there any humanity behind these remarks?
> [@April\_R](#):
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> Ya right :rolleyes:
I think it’s true. From his [main page](http://members.efn.org/~wolfe/index.htm)
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> A forum thread initiated by one of my former housemates, at the Straight Dope website, bantered about the questionable sanity of such a writer; particularly responding to my long tedious essay about my own sanity. One commenter rewrote several of my wordy paragraphs as single sound bite size sentences, and asked why not write thus more briefly? For those like him, this website is probably a total waste to focus on.
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> But another commenter illustrated the risk the legalese attempts to prevent. She was triggered by my use of the term "sexual play" to conjure an image of lively, possibly even brutal, overt intercourse, where I made a brief reference to the highly timid libidoless curiosity of me and my sisters as very young children. Though I too prefer a more brief writing style, I need to prevent at least my own confusion in a rereading ten years later.
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### Author:  [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517/29 "2013-04-08T00:35:58Z")
how did he find it unless the OP told him. No one was named, unless he googles his own writing.
Also, Essay Writer, when you say sexual play libido and some kind of sexual arousal is assumed. Simple curiosity by a child about what does a vagina or penis look like is not sexual play. I have boy girl twins and if I thought every time they saw each other’s butts and said “ewwww gross, hahahahah” and poking each other or made a comment about each other’s privates they were engaging in sexual play I would be crazy.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517/30 "2013-04-08T01:51:00Z")
Batshit writer is batshit. And he looks like Charles Manson.
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### Author:  [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517/31 "2013-04-08T01:59:05Z")
> [@April\_R](#):
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> how did he find it unless the OP told him. No one was named, unless he googles his own writing.
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> Also, Essay Writer, when you say sexual play libido and some kind of sexual arousal is assumed. Simple curiosity by a child about what does a vagina or penis look like is not sexual play. I have boy girl twins and if I thought every time they saw each other’s butts and said “ewwww gross, hahahahah” and poking each other or made a comment about each other’s privates they were engaging in sexual play I would be crazy.
Unless he noticed the huge jump in page views and googled his site to see who’d been talking about him. That’s what I’d do XD
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### Author:  [@goobledell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goobledell)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2013, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517/32 "2013-04-08T06:43:34Z")
@Derleth, I have some responses. I have had unbelievably disappointing experience with doctors. I have only been to one maybe eight times. They all did well at surgery. But one in my youth failed to diagnose poison oak. The surgeon who removed my appendix had no theory to offer of what made it burst, though a library book for children told me of a well controlled study in London linking lack of bathing to appendicitus.
A few years ago I went to the emergency room with the tummy ache I described and the doctor who left me writhing in pain for two hours, asked nothing about what I’d eaten and ignored my attempt to bring up the topic during his five minute exam.
I did quite a bit of reading about AIDS due to the potential insight about scientific politics. The studies I read seemed to back Duesburg’s theory that the immune suppressing effect of long term antibiotic use and use of used needles or low quality blood products, seemed to be far better correlated with AIDS than any contagion from other people.
Two years on raw food profoundly alterred my body. My endurance was unbelievable. I could not sunburn. Appetite became entirely intellectual (no physical hunger). It was very interesting and I highly recommend exploring it.
The list of odd medicines was to assess the doctor’s curiosity. DMSO is a solvent used by horse doctors to treat muscle injury and I’ve found it helpful that way for me. The other items I have no conclusive experience with and the research I’ve read is poorly controlled.
I wrote the questions for a naturapath I went to interview as a doctor for my diabetic girlfriend. I was unimpressed with his apparent wisdom, compared to my own.
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### Author:  [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517/33 "2013-04-08T13:57:48Z")
Well first mistake was asking a Doctor questions about medication. A Pharmacist is better for that. Second mistake was going to a naturapath and expecting them to know all the woo woo out there.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517/34 "2013-04-08T14:31:38Z")
He should be posting in Great Debates.
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2013, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517/35 "2013-04-12T06:29:33Z")
> [@goobledell](#):
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> The surgeon who removed my appendix had no theory to offer of what made it burst, though a library book for children told me of a well controlled study in London linking lack of bathing to appendicitus.
Well, infection makes an appendix burst, and infections can be transmitted through septic personal hygiene, so lack of bathing could easily be the ultimate cause of some cases of appendicitis. Frankly, though, two things come into play: When you’re up to your ass in alligators, the ultimate origin of the infestation is not your primary concern, and, two, as sad as it is (and I do think it’s sad), MDs don’t have time (or, even worse, inclination) to keep up with all the research being done, even if it is in their field.
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> A few years ago I went to the emergency room with the tummy ache I described and the doctor who left me writhing in pain for two hours, asked nothing about what I’d eaten and ignored my attempt to bring up the topic during his five minute exam.
That doctor was an idiot and using him to tar the medical field is unfair. Every field has its share of morons.
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> Duesburg’s theory
No. Wrong. Duesberg is a moron who has been debunked many times over.
> **[Debunking the new Duesberg HIV/AIDS Denialist "paper" in IJAE - Debunking...](https://debunkingdenialism.com/2012/01/11/debunking-the-new-duesberg-hiv-aids-denialist-paper-in-ijae/)**
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> Peter Duesberg is the among the forefathers of the HIV/AIDS denialist movement. They reject the notion that HIV causes AIDS,
> **[AIDS Denial is Pseudoscience](http://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo/AIDS/)**
> **[What do we know about AIDS deaths in South Africa? | AIDSTruth.org](https://www.aidstruth.org/features/2012/what-do-we-know-about-aids-deaths-south-africa/)**
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> By Nathan Geffen The obscure Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology has published an article by AIDS denialist Peter Duesberg packed with errors. It claims that data from Uganda and South Africa shows that there is no evidence of an HIV epidemic.
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> Two years on raw food profoundly alterred my body. My endurance was unbelievable. I could not sunburn. Appetite became entirely intellectual (no physical hunger).
Then… why do people who live on raw food in Africa get hungry to the point of dying of starvation?
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> The list of odd medicines was to assess the doctor’s curiosity.
It would have that effect if the doctor was lucky enough to not have had much experience with the quack-medicine crowd. If the MD did know a bit about what the scam artists were selling, they’d consider you a sucker who’d gotten taken in.
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> DMSO is a solvent used by horse doctors to treat muscle injury and I’ve found it helpful that way for me.
Sure. DMSO is known to be an analgesic and anti-inflammatory agent.
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> The other items I have no conclusive experience with and the research I’ve read is poorly controlled.
Well, at least you admit that much.
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> I wrote the questions for a naturapath I went to interview as a doctor for my diabetic girlfriend. I was unimpressed with his apparent wisdom, compared to my own.
I’m unimpressed with naturopaths because they’re quacks and inhabit a field dependent on homeopathy, which is quackery in its purest form.
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2013, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-this-person-is-insane/654517/36 "2013-04-13T22:26:00Z")
Okay, this looks like two people who are disagreeing irl who have brought their disagreement here.
No, we’re not having it. Thread closed.
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