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"Not only can man manipulate nature but Francis Bacon, father of the scientific method, takes it a step further by saying, "It is important to use the techniques of the Inquisition to tease and torture the secrets of Mother nature out into the open." He is referring to the techniques for torture put forth in the most widely distributed book of the time, other than the Bible, the Malleus Malefkarum, otherwise known as the Hammer of the Witches." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"As part of Clovis's modus vivendi with his bishops, his Gallo-Roman subjects were allowed—one could apparently decide the law under which one would live by simply choosing one in the presence of a judge—to use either the Roman law, soon to be codified by Tribonian in Constantinople, or the Lex Salica, or Salian Code, distinguished by judicial torture, trial by combat, and wergild." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Things produce after their own kind. The torture and suffering of animals in useless attempts to find cures for diseases does no good, actually it can only do bad — it only produces more of its own kind: more torture and suffering...more disease. If you find yourself suddenly aware of new food choices grabbing hold of you, then please throw a fruit and raw-food party and experience the best day ever! True therapeutics involves releasing the power within each person to heal. It is not the disease that must be stopped, but the poisoning of the body by an unhealthy lifestyle." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"Some two hundred cases of blindness in a group of Cambodian women forced by the Khmer Rouge to witness the torture and slaughter of those close to them, particularly their menfolk. Examination of these women confirmed that there was nothing physically wrong with their eyes. Their own understanding of what had happened to them was that, having been made to bear witness to the unbearable, they had all "cried until they could not see";16 4. The case of Mr." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"The torture and suffering of animals in useless attempts to find cures for diseases does no good, actually it can only do bad — it only produces more of its own kind: more torture and suffering...more disease. If you find yourself suddenly aware of new food choices grabbing hold of you, then please throw a fruit and raw-food party and experience the best day ever! True therapeutics involves releasing the power within each person to heal. It is not the disease that must be stopped, but the poisoning of the body by an unhealthy lifestyle." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"One day a Brahmin youth arrived and asked why anyone so beautiful should be destroying herself with such torture. "My desire," she replied, "is Shiva, the Highest Object. Shiva is a god of solitude and unshakable concentration. I therefore am practicing these austerities to move him from his state of balance and bring him to me in love." 12 Kinersborough, op. cit., Vol. VIII, pp. 263-364. "Shiva," the youth said, "is a god of destruction. Shiva is the World Annihilator." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"One exception is akathisia, an experience of inner torture with a compulsion to move, which we've seen as a result of exposure to SSRI antidepressants. The DSM-IV recognizes that neuroleptic-induced akathisia can produce suicidal and violent behavior, and a general worsening of the individual's condition. It estimates neuroleptic-induced akathisia to occur in 20 to 75 percent of patients.13 Withdrawal is the other exception in which neuroleptics can cause activation with anxiety and agitation rather than more stupefied reactions." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Unsympathetic or uninformed physicians often fail to realize that the prescribed medication is causing this torture. Instead, the doctors blame the patient's "craziness" and increase the dose of the offending agent, too often with tragic consequences. Or, the misinformed doctors attribute the mental deterioration to an "unmasking" of the patient's supposedly underlying mental illness, and then add yet another mind-altering drug to the treatment regimen." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"He is referring to the techniques for torture put forth in the most widely distributed book of the time, other than the Bible, the Malleus Malefkarum, otherwise known as the Hammer of the Witches. It is interesting to note that Francis Bacon was not actually a scientist but a lawyer—one who was dismissed as Lord Chancellor from Parliament for accepting a bribe. It is from this man, who could easily have been beheaded instead of merely dismissed from his position, that our entire way of approaching science (the scientific method) has been founded." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"In fact, torture may even produce less reliable information than traditional interrogations do. In the 1940s, the U.S. Supreme Court prohibited police from applying physical pressure on suspects. Police departments have since taught a range of new psychological techniques that are equally (or more) effective. People will confess to anything to escape the pain of torture, and false confessions and coerced false intelligence are worse than useless. After all, if a' cop is chasing the wrong guy, the bad guy is running free." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Not since the worst excesses of the early empire was it ruled by a man with such an appetite for cruelty and torture. Phocas's brutality was not only pathological, it was suicidal; at the very moment that he was under attack in the east from Khusro II, Phocas recalled his best general from Mesopotamia, apparently for the pleasure of burning him alive.44 Phocas was not, of course, the only curse afflicting the empire." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"If the psychiatrist didn't have drugs to pass out, he is limited to whatever medical procedure he can do such as electric shock therapy, lobotomy and radical brain surgery, and other similar quackeries that torture people's brains - brutalize them. That's all they have in their books, and the public has wizened up and seen the horror of shock therapy and lobotomy these days and aren't supportive of them. Drugs, on the other hand, are something that is socially acceptable. So the psychiatrists are very dependent on the drug industry." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"In fact, there is less and less actual plot, and more and more of the various forms of torture. Ours apparently not being a comedic age, there are few sitcoms anymore, and the only breakthrough domestic drama of recent years has been the appropriately named Desperate Housewives, in which one of the housewives gets addicted to her child's Ritalin." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"But it was violently opposed to heresies and apostasies, and even more hostile to practices associated with pagans who had never accepted Christianity, most particularly homosexuality, which carried the most onerous of punishments, including public torture and mutilation prior to mandatory execution. Neither the language of the Codex nor its religiosity proves most troubling for "modern" lawyers . . . that is, those living after the Renaissance. The most lasting criticism of Tribonian is not bad writing or severity, but fraud." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"When people don't sleep for three or more days on end, they become psychotic; that's why so many forms of torture involve sleep deprivation. With no sleep, you're vulnerable, weak, and more whacked out than a 'shroom-scarfing hippie. Sleep problems and sleep deprivation are self-imposed As if we needed any more evidence that female brains trump men's brains: Women's pineal glands are larger than men's, despite the fact that men's brains are anatomically larger on the whole. That may help explain why women age more slowly than men and live longer. FACTOIP torture." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"It would make it harder to massage and torture data to produce minor effects. And it would allow for a meaningful benefit/ risk assessment. 3. The initiative largely avoids the third rail, the testing of devices. Let's finally do something about "devices." Our nation needs to demand that these widgets and gizmos be subjected to the same high standards of effectiveness we would demand of pharmaceuticals. Today, devices face a high hurdle in terms of safety but a problematic hurdle in terms of effectiveness. That's why there are so many widgets competing in the same market." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "The panels torture the inconsistent results of the many trials to generate indications by consensus (Hemingway et al. 2001). These are the same inconsistent trials that I interpret as indicating an absence of compelling data for benefit. Certainly there is no hint of a degree of benefit that justifies the risk of postoperative horrors and prolonged cognitive deficits from cabgs (Newman et al. 2001; Mark and Newman 2002; van Dijk et al. 2007). I find the argument that angioplasty is "as effective" but gentler than cabgs sophistic." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"She (Nature) was to be "put in constraints"; the aim of science was to "torture nature's secrets from her" so she can be "forced out of her natural state and squeezed and molded." It is not coincidence that in a patriarchal culture nature is a "female" to be controlled and even tortured by a "masculine" science. The metaphors employed by Bacon in his scientific writings are directly linked to his position as attorney general for King James I. In that capacity, Bacon employed the same terminology in his prosecution of witches that resulted in the torture and murder of millions of women." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"That is not to say that we haven't greatly improved upon medieval treatments for depression, which included torture and drowning to rid the soul of demons, but I think we can do better. At the turn of the twentieth century, Freud suggested that someday an organic cause would be found to explain depression. Then modern science discovered the role that neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine play. Only recently have we begun to understand how neurotransmitters are affected by our hormones." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Then there are those who are marathon sitters, who torture their fascia, knees, hips, shoulders, and neck with immobility. Being either too active or too sedentary is not healthy. My guess is that a lack of moderation in the field of exercise, no matter which camp you fall into, is part of what has led you to Spent. If the idea of moderate exercise—whether you're a couch potato or a gym rat—makes you want to skip this beat, please don't. We're going to accomplish something with exercise in this book that's probably different from any approach you've ever tried before." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Torture means "excruciating physical or mental pain; agony: the torture of waiting in suspense." And that describes life for those who don't get enough sleep. Here's why sleep deprivation is such an effective means of torture. After two sleepless days, one's concentration becomes difficult to maintain. A person may be able to perform well for short periods of time, but will be prone to mistakes and slips of attention. Stretch that to three sleepless days, and most people will have a difficult time thinking, seeing, and hearing clearly." - KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.)

"I will never forget the pain Dad felt those final days. "Torture! You're torturing me!" he screamed whenever anyone gently moved him. The last two days it was so bad he had to take morphine. My father was a true Renaissance Man. He had enough talents and hobbies for several lifetimes, but he especially identified with being a WW II Royal Air Force veteran. The love of his life was flying. The day before Dad died, I had a few minutes alone with him. I will never forget the sense of urgency in his eyes as he struggled to give me some profound words of wisdom: "Life is here, then gone tomorrow!" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"I expected him to say the physical and psychological torture and relentless, sophisticated brain-washing techniques designed to force him to renounce his spiritual beliefs and monkhood and embrace Communist ideology. "The greatest danger I faced during my imprisonment was the few moments I thought I might lose my compassion for my Chinese captors," he said. Meaning, Purpose, and Health The lack of meaning in life is a soul sickness whose full extent and full import our age has not as yet begun to comprehend. -C. G. JUNG Meaning makes a great many things endurable—perhaps everything." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Another term for "secondary analysis" is "data torturing," defined by James Mills as: "If you torture your data long enough, they will tell you whatever you want to hear" (Mills 1993). I ignore subgroup analyses, except as an exploratory analysis. It might point the way to the next generation of research protocols, but it does little to enhance my level of confidence in any inference anyone else draws from the data. I am not alone (Legakos 2006). Data torturing of the randomized cabg trials has served the cardiovascular industry very well and patients very poorly." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Let her be often and frequently exposed to torture," its authors wrote, speaking of the woman accused of being a midwife/witch, "and while this is being done, let the notary write it all down, how she is tortured and what questions are asked and how she answers. If, after being fittingly tortured, she refuses to confess the truth, he should have other engines of torture brought before her, and tell her she will have to endure these if she does not confess." - John Robbins, Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the True Source of Healing (Get the book.)

"Appendix D Studies from Scientific Journals It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. —Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) In continuation from Chapter 8, various studies published in professional scientific journals are excerpted here, along with a few comments summarizing the findings. This list is by no means complete. Note that mutagenic means 'causing mutations', and carcinogenic means 'causing cancer'. Mutagens are typically carcinogenic. 48. " - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Henry notes, "To a Zuni, Hopi, or Dakota Indian, Peggy's performance would seem cruel beyond belief, for competition, the wringing of success from somebody's failure, is a form of torture." Classroom life is routinely about keeping quiet and sitting still, and children are increasingly diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) if they create "classroom-management" problems for their teachers (symptoms of ADHD include a failure to keep quiet and a failure to sit still)." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"They like to rock on trees, beautifully singing.42 The Arcadian god Pan is the best known Classical example of this dangerous presence dwelling just beyond the protected zone of the village boundary. Sylvanus and Faunus were his Latin counterparts.43 He was the inventor of the shepherd's pipe, which he played for the dances of the nymphs, and the satyrs were his male companions.44 The emotion that he instilled in human beings who by accident adventured into his domain was "panic" fear, a sudden, groundless fright." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"The report made three main points: first, torture is systematic, not random; second, the methods of torture are becoming more clever; and finally, it is part of the U.S. counterinsurgency program there—with U.S. servicemen often acting as supervisors. The Marin Interfaith Task Force of Mill Valley, California, assembled the smuggled report from Mariona prison into a document titled "Torture in El Salvador" and distributed it to major newspapers and other mainstream media nationally. Only one newspaper gave the actual report substantial coverage." - Carl Jensen, 20 Years of Censored News (Get the book.)

"Based on the victims' self-assessments, they experienced complete recovery from "the post-traumatic emotional effects of 247 of the 249 memories of torture, rape, and witnessing the massacre of loved ones" that were treated. The chief medical officer (surgeon general) of Kosovo wrote the following letter of appreciation: Many well-funded relief organizations have treated the posttraumatic stress here in Kosovo. Some of our people had limited improvement but Kosovo had no major change or real hope until...we referred our most difficult patients to [the inter national treatment team}." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

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