Snorfling Aloofly in the Remotest Mountain Streams of Life, - February 26th, 2008

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February 26th, 2008


04:29 pm - Call for posts that were blocked by NYU's "Town Hall Meeting"
As some of you may know, New York University's Child Study Center hosted what they purported to be a "town hall meeting" today on the topic of childhood mental illnesses. For weeks, they have been effusively "inviting public participation and input," which was to take place, supposedly, in the forum today. But what you won't likely know unless you participated in the forum is that countless posts were BLOCKED for no apparent reason -- except, perhaps, that "Doctor" Harold Koplewicz (of "Ransom Notes" and Paxil Study 329 fame) just didn't happen to feel like addressing those posts, and as such, saw no reason for them to appear at all. Clearly, he has his own unique definition of what "town hall meeting" should mean.

Here are three of my most "controversial" posts that were silenced in this "open forum":

And what I'm hoping to do about it... )

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