Things I tripped over on my way to the internet.

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On how misanthropy and shyness became official disorders, with drugs to cure them:

‘Lane tells me the process, which was supposed to establish psychiatry as a solid science, was itself “highly unscientific.” The task force spun out one new disorder after another, sometimes “knocking out the list of symptoms in a matter of minutes… . Almost overnight, shyness and many other routine moods and ailments became bona fide disorders.” ‘

Interesting.