“DSM-IV is the fabrication upon which psychiatry seeks acceptance by medicine in general. Insiders know it is more a political than scientific document… DSM-IV has become a bible and a money making bestseller—its major failings notwithstanding.” KnowsPoliticalFailingAcceptanceMajorsMedicineMaking MoneyDocumentsPsychiatryInsidersFabrication Author:Loren Mosher
“In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve as the lodestar of our political system only if its terms are binding on us. To the extent we depart from the document's language and rely instead on generalities that we see written between the lines, we rob the Constitution of its binding force and give free reign to the fashions and passions of the day.” IfsGivingRealPoliticalPassionLanguageForceTermLinesWrittenFashionConstitutionRelyDocumentsReignPolitical SystemsBindingCompactGeneralitiesBetween The Lines Author:Alex Kozinski
“We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. No other objective facts have been presented in recent time. The IPCC's reports in 1990 and 1995 show it clearly.” Has BeensFactsShowsPoliticalArgumentPressureClimateClimate ChangeObjectivesReportsLinksDocumentsCarbonFavourEmissionsCarbon DioxideKyotoKyoto ProtocolCarbon Dioxide Emissions Author:Andrey Illarionov
“Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.” StoriesPoliticalGivenDocuments Author:Larry Kramer