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This file lists the changes made in 2012.
For 2011 and before: 2011.

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There are changes (mostly additions) most weeks, sometimes quite a few, sometimes only one or two. The important ones are listed in this file, and are current to the date that follows:

Date of this file : May 15, 2012

Maarten Maartensz

 

 

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        These are the additions, changes and corrections  of 2012.

        For earlier ones see 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 , 2009, 2010, and 2011.

        Note this is a selection: Small changes of typos are not mentioned, and not all additions
        may be listed here.

          MAY

  • May 14: Fixed and added some links to May 13: DSM-5: On Dr Frances' article on the DSM-5 in the NYT (which arise because I am currently between 2 computers and 3
    operating systems). And there now is today's Nederlog:
    Varia:  DSM-5 + Linux.Ubuntu

  • May 14: Fixed the ME-Resources link in the opening pages, and fixed some
    typos in yesterday´s Nederlog.

  • May 13: DSM-5: On Dr Frances' article on the DSM-5 in the NYT: A review
    of the article I quoted but did not review on May 12: It really is an important
    and sensible article.

  • May 12:  ME+DSM5: Phoenix Falling + Dr Frances Rising: Phoenix Rising has a
    new forum that does not work for me, and Dr Allen Frances took a laudable and
    courageous stand against the APA and the DSM-5 I much appreciate, and to
    explain why I do I repeat a file of precisely 2 years ago:     ME and Human Rights.
     
  • May 11:  me+ME:  Some nice things:  Methylation-protocol  +  Ubuntu Linux: Some
    really nice news for a change: The methylation protocol I follow really helps me, and
    enabled me to get and install a new computer, that now runs Ubuntu Linux, that is
    excellent. (Indeed, today´s files for my websites have been written on Ubuntu rather than  Windows.)

  • May 10: As I said on May 8, I had to do most of that text twice, and indeed I did the second version very exhausted and made two minor mistakes in the spreadsheet I set up (dividing by the wrong number of factors). These have not been repaired, and the overall effect is the same or worse than it was, because I calculated the anyway frighteningly low
    average kappa of the DSM-5 too high.

    Meanwhile, in England the government is practising the handiwork and ideology of professors Wessely, White, Calder and Sharpe:     me+ME: 'Purge on disabled a Nazi piece of work' (Scottish Sun Newspaper) and not because there is any need for this, but because it is profitable and the ordinary average can be tricked by propaganda now as they could be in Hitler's time: Thus the Jews were also exterminated en masse, namely
    for being not of the healthy kind of     the ordinary average that surrounded them. If you're
    ill you're expenable. "Tough luck, and don't you dare say "Nazism" or we treat you like
    one of the ill who parasite on us who belong to the healthy majority    ". (I dare, but then
    my family is not quite of professor Wessely's human-all-too-human qualities    .) 

  • May 9: me+ME: Excellent article about ME/CFS in Daily Mail: Indeed what my
    title says: The English journalist Sonia Poulton published yesterday an excellent article about 12 myths about and around ME/CFS.

  • May 8: DSM-5: EPIC Fail of DSM-5 "field trials" - more kappas: More on the
    reliably unreliable DSM-5 and the PsychoSpeak of doctors Regier and Kupfer:
    There is a table that shows that the DSM-5 is the least reliable and most
    dangerous diagnostic manual in psychiatry (compared with the DSM-IV, DSM-III
    and the ICD). In fact, the ICD-10 - not an APA-product, indeed - is the least
    unreliable of the four.

  • May 7: DSM-5: PsychoSpeak II (Epic Fail of DSM-5 "field trials"): In which
    it is revealed that the DSM-5 is produced on the same principle as Stalin's
    propaganda, as also discussed by Orwell and here:
    DSM-5+ME: PyschoSpeak - version 0.0 (JavaScript needed)

  • May 5: DSM-5: Various bits and pieces relating to various DSMs: What the
    title says, and mostly not my work, but quite interesting and enlightening. There
    are also some clarifications in the beginning about yesterday's piece.

  • May 4:  The Narko-Nazi Netherlands:  National Day of National Narko-Nazi Justificiation :  Another nice laudatio of the Dutch and especially of their
    tolerant mayors, aldermen, parliamentarians, ministers, policemen, judges and
    district attorneys who now have for over 40 years protected the drugs mafia,
    all most honourably so, if you believe in supermen in politics. (My advice:
    If your IQ is over 115 and you are not a Dutch     mayor, alderman, parliamentarian,
    minister, policeman, judge, district attorney, or drugs dealer: Flee this country
    while you can, if you're healthy.)

  • May 3: me+ME: Computernews: Linux on a stick!: What it says: I now can run Linux  and Windows from my new computer. Nice! Also made some corrections to and added some links in yesterday's Nederlog.

  • May 2: DSM-5 and a real philosopher: George Carlin: What the title says: Why I write such long texts about the DSM-5 and psychiatry; some about philosophy and "academic education" in Holland from 1971-1995 (viz. "marxist", "feminist", "postmodernist" in succession, all by the same people, all lying careerists pretending to be "revolutionaries"" and dissimulating fashionable nonsensical cant to make a career), and four fine videos with monologues by George Carlin ( that you can skip to from the beginning, in case I may bore you ).

  • May 1: Made some corrections in and added some links to yesterday's Nederlog,
    that folks seem to have liked, as I also did. More George Carlin later: A man with
    great intelligence, great honesty and great courage, and a real philosopher, in ways
    no academic philosopher is real.

APRIL

MARCH

  • Mar 29: me+ME:  P.S. + Between two computers - 2: I'd forgotten to insert a P.S. yesterday, namely a nice quote from ca. 1495 A.D., now inserted and also repeated today and am still between 2 computers, though everything works.

  • Mar 28: I corrected the display of Nederlog for March: First, at the end of the textwindows there was an outlining mistake that has been put right, and second I have refitted DSM-5: Thomas Szasz's ideas about psychiatry of March 3 to a new textwindow, and found that mistakes fitting that text in the textwindow seem to have been due to a setting in material I copied from Wikipedia. And there now is Crisis: The Age of Ignorance that quotes and discusses an article with the title (minus "Crisis: ") in the New York Review of Books.

  • Mar 27: Corrected some typos in yesterday's Nederlog. And added another repeat with additions for your delectation: Some Favourite Books & Authors. (This should also satisfy intelligent readers without an abiding interesting in mathematical subjects -
    which is quite OK with me, and one may be a perfectly fine person with a fine mind,
    while caring not one whit for math-related stuff).
     

  • Mar 26: On logic and logic books: Another - hugely instructive - (partial) repeat, though not from an item that previously appeared in Nederlog, but from an item that is in the section Logic on my site, and that urgently needed some updating and corrections of links, which it did get today. 
     

  • Mar 25: Made some corrections and small additions to yesterday's Nederlog. And:
    On natural philosophy, philosophy of science, and psychiatry - a repeat from the beginning of 2011, with the addition of the links to what I wrote in Nederlog since 2011 relating to the DSM-5.
     

  • Mar 24: DSM-5: Is dr. Allen Frances a dangerous man?: Instead of answering Dr Frances criticisms in a polite, rational and reasonable way, the APA has hired a PR specialist from the US Army - the sort of guy or gal who just likes to tell you, as between friends, that waterboarding is not at all torture - who has stated to Time magazine that
    dr. Frances is a 'dangerous' man. I consider the matter, and say something about the differences between Frances' position and my own.
     

  • Mar 23: me+ME:  Between two computers: What the title says: If there are no or few additions the coming days or week - I don't know yet: It depends on rather a lot of different things - it is because I am otherwise occupied. (Then again, the new machine does work and I may be back tomorrow - it all depends.)
     

  • Mar 20: DSM-5+ME: PyschoSpeak - version 0.0 (JavaScript needed):
    The first version of PsychoSpeak: A simple JS program at least as intelligent as
    professor Peter Denton White, but with better grammar and logic. Later versions
    will be even more realistic and instructive! Enjoy! (The code is in the html, and
    if you look you'll find it's all quite simple, really. That means that if I have health
    enough, I can make this rather sophisticated and tricky. If I don't, this should show
     some basic principles of "evidence-based medicine" clear enough as is.)
     

  • Mar 19: Uploaded most of my Philosophical Dictionary again, also with some
    recent additions, to make sure it all has been uploaded. There should be soon some
    more changes, for I want to make some repairs on subjects I changed my mind on,
    notably on rational degrees of belief and on propositional attitudes. (What's there now
    on these subjects is not what I now think is correct.) But first I want to make sure
    that what's on line and what's on my hard disk is the same, which is the end of today's
    upload. And the above also is in today's Nederlog: Updates site and Philosophical Dictionary.
     

  • Mar 17: me+ME: PR, groupthinking and Goffman + Mach on HGRV: What the title
    says: Links about PR, groupthinking and Goffman, and some about a site by Tony Mach,
    who has ME/CFS and has a blog with rather a lot of information and arguments relating
    to it.
     

  • Mar 16: me+ME: WPI annual report w/Sam Shad PR & RR PR + ERV : The WPI
    yesterday published an annual report I take a brief look at, while quoting its best
    argument (also mirrored) and I also briefly consider Ms Abbie Smith's latest blog
    on XMRV, who doesn't really believe it was all just contamination (which I suspect
    is also what many retrovirologists and the editors of Science don't really believe).
     

  • Mar 15: Crisis: Corporate psychopaths - part B: This mostly continues part A of January 7, this time on the basis of an article written in the New York Times by a
    manager of Goldman Sachs who has had enough of "Greed is good" and left that
    bank. I quote and comment some.
     

  • Mar 14: Crisis: Wall Street highest since 2008: An update on the ongoing crisis, with links and some explanations: The economical indices are better than they were for a long
    time.
     

  • Mar 13: me: Interesting pickings from the internet: What the title says: Russell,
    Feynman, a novachord dueting with a theremin, the earthly garden of delights in great and graphic detail, and the difference between representing fact and fiction, plus an interesting site with many more interesting things, by Christopher Pickover.
     

  • Mar 11: I h ave made the arrows in the Nederlog of March link correctly (for not all did).
    And there is Moving pictures of minute bodily processes which is what it says, and are mostly 5 amazing and fascinating videos of what goes on in our bodies.
     

  • Mar 9: me+ME: Patricia Carter vs Annette Whittemore: Ms Patricia Carter - a living death according to herself, and grandmother - has created a petition to the President, the Senate, and the House about the misuse of funds by the WPI and in particular Annette Whittemore, which may be somehow tenable, and added a lot more, that make it sound wacky. I quote and explain.
     

  • Mar 8: me+ME: Research, X-Rx, Whittemores, mB12 protocol:  What the title says:
    Some updates on various topics I have mentioned before in Nederlog.
     

  • Mar 7: Philosophy: "On Wit and Humour" - William Hazlitt: One of those days all
    lovers of Hazlitt's prose - "(T)    hough we are mighty fine fellows nowadays, we cannot write like Hazlitt": Robert Louis Stevenson - who read my site rejoice: Gaudeamus igitur!
    (Actually, not many, so far as I can tell, but even so.)
     

  • Mar 6: Crisis: The drones of war: I briefly report on a bit of progress in The Art Of
    War (a subject much in Machiavelli's interest): Send out Our Drones to do battle with Their Drones.
     

  • Mar 5: Crisis: Corporations taking over the state + Machiavelli reformatted:
     A new item in my series on the crisis - since 2008, nr 102 - triggered by the news
    about a strange corporate spy firm, that also triggered a reformatting of Machiavelli's
    The Prince with my remarks.
     

  • Mar 4: I repaired some in yesterday's Nederlog, but need to do more reformatting.

     DSM-5: Thomas Szasz's ideas about psychiatry: P.S - editing problems: A brief
    summary of the editing problems and of some important background material and points
    that should neither be missed nor misunderstood.
     

  • Mar 3: The time has arrived to inflict DSM-5: Thomas Szasz's ideas about psychiatry
    on my readers - where I say "inflict" because of its size: Over 215 Kb, and not because
    it's awful or unreadable.

    Also i    t is long in part that's because it's repetitive, namely so that you don't need to read all: part 2 gives the text of the Wikipedia lemma, and part 3 quotes the parts I comment on again, followed by my comments, and ended with a "Back" that links to the text at the note's place.

    It may be seen as part of a theoretical defense of patients with ME/CFS against psychiatry; as background and context for what is effectively a series in Nederlog on the DSM-5 and postmodern psychiatry; as one theoretical basis for further criticism of the DSM-5 and postmodern psychiatry; and exposition of the ideas of Thomas Szasz about psychiatry, as rendered on Wikipedia.

    And as it stands it probably needs some minor correcting, but then the present
    Nederlog is one of the rare ones that was written over several days.

    Finally, it may happen the present version doesn't display well. I'll try to make a
    better formatted version. Later.
     

  • Mar 2: I put in a link I had forgotten and corrected some typos and unclarities in
    yesterday's Nederlog, and for today have for the delectation of the best minds and
    of those most sensitive to the quality of prose:

    Multatuli on line in Dutch and in English: A partial repeat from September last,
    with some additional text, because that struck my fancy, and because Multatuli
    was born on March 2, 1820.
     

  • Mar 1: me+ME: Mikovits vs Whittemores vs Deckoff-Jones: More on the litigation-saga, with cited documentation with comments and cited emails. 

FEBRUARY

  • Feb 29: Made some corrections to yesterday's essay on Psychiatric Newspeak aka
    PsychoSpeak. And produced a P.S. to it:
    DSM-5: THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHIATRIC NEWSPEAK (PSYCHO-SPEAK) - P.S.
    This contains some fine quotes by various people; some good references; and some
    sick quotes from some of the sick minds that compile the DSM-5.
     

  • Feb 28: DSM-5: THE PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHIATRIC NEWSPEAK (PSYCHO-SPEAK):
    This is a rewrite of Orwell's The Principles of Newspeak. Links to the original
    and endnotes are provided, as is a link to Scientific Realism versus Postmodernism.
    Have fun!
     

  • Feb 27: DSM-5: The trailer for the DSM-5 of the APA, a full subsidiary of Uranus Corp:
    Some corrections in a previous Nederlog, that gave me The Zen-MomentTM  that reminded
    me that the real trailer for the APA's DSM-5 has been designed long ago. Enjoy!
     

  • Feb 26: DSM-5: 50 reasons to stop the DSM-5: This continues yesterday's Nederlog,
    namely by repeating a list of reasons hidden in the middle of an earlier long Nederlog.
    So here these reasons are again, by themselves with some corrections and links.
    There's also a link to     the Rosenhan experiment, that any reader who is interested
    in psychiatry should know, and to the original text of it, that is well written, well argued,
    very informed, and valid ever since its publication in 1973:     On Being Sane In Insane Place.
    (Prepare yourself to be shocked.)
     

  • Feb 25: DSM-5: A good plan for the DSM-5: Back to the DSM-5, for which there now
    is a good plan: Ditch it with the help of the US government and politicians. I quote and
    provide links.

    Also... today is also the commemoration in Amsterdam of the February Strike, that landed
    my father and grandfather in German concentration-camps. I will avoid commemorating it,
    because today's commemoration is led (1) by a Stalinist degenerate hardly human horror of a
    man who helped the drugsmafia get power in Amsterdam, and refused to acknowledge the existence of my report of 1970 that told him this was happening in the municipal Sleep-Ins, of which I had led one: He wanted the drugs mafia so much, it seems, that he had me denied any entrance to any Sleep-In for several years, and also denied, even to my father, who phoned him about it - and who was a real hero of the resistance, unlike the human degenerate I am
    talking of - that he had received the report I had written for him and handed to him; and is led (2) by one of the human degenerates who signed the letter that removed me from the faculty of philosophy as a student, because of my "outspoken public ideas", "in  spite of your serious illness".

    More later about this, probably in Dutch, since it is difficult to understand for those who
    are not Dutch.
     

  • Feb 24: me+ME: A good report on XMRV: What the title says - I provide an abstract,
    brief review, and a link for downloading.
     

  • Feb 22: DSM-5: Allen Frances vs the American Psychiatric Association 3/3: The third
    of three Nederlogs, of which the first two are from 11 days ago.     The second of these
    has been renamed because it misbehaved for some reason, and showed the wrong
    font size whatever I did or tried.
     

  • Feb 21: Removed a link and corrected some typos and unclarities in yesterday's Nederlog.
     

  • Feb 20: DSM-5: Some sensible ideas about the DSM-5 - P.S.: A not so long P.S.
    to the previous - long - Nederlog, with some illustrations and support for my notion
    that psychiatry is a pseudoscience that needs terminating as a supposed "science":
    "Bodily Distress Disorder" as new catch-all psychiatric diagnosis of any suffering that
    has a somatic component.
     

  • Feb 19: Uploaded some small corrections and added links to yesterday's Nederlog, in
    fact late yesterday, but mentioned today in case you wanted the latest version.

    No great difference but with some typos corrected and some useful links including
    the fine point-by-point criticism of the DSM-5 that was published last year by the British Psychological Society (BPS) added - and made working, today.
     

  • Feb 18: DSM-5: Some sensible ideas about the DSM-5: I found some quite sensible
    ideas about the DSM-5 summarized on Suzy Chapman's     Dx Revision Watch that were
    gathered from British psychologists and psychiatrists. I quote and comment and then
    summarize my 50 points. It's rather a lot of text, but it should be helpful to most who
    are concerned about psychiatry, especially since seeing what the DSM-5 promises to
    contain.
     

  • Feb 17: me+ME: XMRV updates + Whittemore updates: This links to some recent
    developments around XMRV and around the Whittemores, with some brief comments
    by me.
     

  • Feb 16: DSM-5: Alzheimer's Disease: A follow-up on an earlier Nederlog on dr. Allen
    Frances on the DSM-5, mostly because the subject is of concern to me, but also with
    some remarks on the DSM-5.

    Also repaired some titles of Nederlogs of the past few days, and added a link in
    yesterday's Nederlog about Max Weber, about whom I also added a brief note, and
    idem for C. Wright Mills. (Much of sociology is baloney, but this is not true of Weber,
     Mills, and Aron.)
     

  • Feb 15: Philosophy: Sin as Stupidity, Ignorance, Negligence:  I found an interestinh
    booklet I read some decades ago, and give some quotes and some comments, about a
    definition as in the title.
     

  • Feb 14: me+ME: On the site: Just a brief piece to the effect that I have been busy on
     the site without having anything to show for it, and that I have corrected some typos
    and added some links to the Nederlogs of Feb 11 last.

  • Feb 13: ME: Margaret Williams on 2 Dutch liars "in the name of science": Uploaded this
    today, though it is dated and was put together yesterday. Also uploaded new versions of
    directories attached to MEinAmsterdam, since I seem to have forgotten that in December:
    /2009ME, /2010ME, /buromedisch, /gggd, /mein_10j, /mein_dam, /notities and /politics.

    I have not uploaded all of these, but some, and should check all and upload all of
    MEinAmsterdam soon, and also extend it some. But then it is mostly about my destroyed
    health and why I do not get any help: I.a. to prevent my doing just this, and so save the
    wealth, health, and happiness of the last three drugs corrupt Amsterdam mayors (Van Thijn,
    Patijn, Cohen) and their families.
     

  • Feb 11: DSM-5: Allen Frances vs the American Psychiatric Association (1/3): The first
    of 3 parts in which I discuss articles by dr. Frances - chief-editor of the DSM-IV, at
    present professor emeritus psychiatry of Duke University. This is about an article in
    which he argues the DSM-5 should be delayed.

    DSM-5: Allen Frances vs the American Psychiatric Association (2/3): The second
    of the series: About an article in which dr. Frances discusses 10 of what he and others
    regard as "the worst follies" of the DSM-5.

    I also restored Margaret Williams's text in the Nederlog of 21 january, that in fact did
    not need to be removed, as I had falsely inferred from an e-mail.
     

  • Feb 10: ME: Heidi Bauer vs the Whittemores + Dr. Lombardi PI at WPI: I consider
    a patients' advocate on the Whittemores; dr. Lombardi's promotion; and the retainment
    by the WPI of the NIH-grant.

     DSM-5: Kate Kelland vs the American Psychiatric Association: Another Nederlog,
    about a good article for Reuters by Kate Kelland on the DSM-5.
     

  • Feb 9:  Logic+Philosophy: About structures, maps and representations: What the title
    says: Some rather clear definitions of some fundamental concepts for explaining and
    understanding.
     

  • Feb 8:  Corrected some typos and added some links in yesterday's NL.
     

  • Feb 7: me+ME: Tuller + Behan + Kitei + Williams: I link and briefly review some
    material of the persons named in the title relating to ME/CFS.
     

  • Feb 6: me+ME: X-Rx + Whittemores: Jamie Deckoff-Jones has a new site, with a new
    blog, and with a planned forum, and I write about that, and the Whittemores have
    started their own law suit, for 60 million dollars or more, against the Seenos, who a
    week ago started a law suit against the Whittemores for 40 million dollars or more.
    I write about it because it (also) has to do with drugs, or so the Whittemores say.
      

  • Feb 5:  Computing: Browsers, editors, languages: I say something about browsers
    (SeaMonkey), text-editors (PSPad), and programming languages I like (CoffeeScript),
    because I have been using these lately, and some of my readers may be interested.
    Also, I treat of the competition, and provide links.
     

  • Feb 3: Philosophy: The Dhammapada on the site: What the title says. I hope to
    write Notes on it, but have not done so so far.
     

  • Feb 2: On the site + To Do list: Made a few change in the opening and hope to
    revise - check, reformat, improve html - the whole site, bit by bit. And there is an
    answer to the logic puzzle of yesterday. (It may keep some social scientists from
    sleeping, not to have been able to find the solution, I mean.)

  • Feb 1: Crisis: On the supermen who are our leaders: I link a bit from The Young Turks,
    on the subject of corporate mega theft, pardon: "bonuses", and consider the question
    whether all our leaders are psychopaths. There also is a nice logical puzzle about the
    characteristics of politicians.

JANUARY

  • Jan 30: me+ME: Whittemores in court + mB12 protocol: What the title says, and I
    am mostly documenting and providing links.
     

  • Jan 29: Crisis: Crisis-Issue 100: As the title says, this is the 100th file in the series on
    the crisis that I started on September 1, 2008. There was an index made in 2009, but
    today I moved and linked all 100 files - I hope - to today's file.
     

  • Jan 28: Crisis: George Soros warns: A link to a video about George Soros on the ongoing
    economical and political crisis.
     

  • Jan 27: Democracy-plan: Educated democratic voting: Continuing the previous
    Nederlog I provide the mathematics for educated democratic voting, with some
    contributions also of George Carlin and     Guidantonio Vespucci.
     

  • Jan 25: Democracy-plan: Mark Twain was there first (and better): I note that a
    somewhat satirical idea of Twain antedates my democracy-plan by a century or so.

    Removed text of Margaret Williams on being told it had been removed from
    the original place. And uploaded a corrected ME opening page, with fixed background.
    And idem the Logic opening page and the Clifford section: fixed backgrounds. And
    idem "On 'The Logic of Moral Discourse'".
     

  • Jan 24: me+ME: Surfacing from programming + Generalities + Projects: There were
    fewer Nederlogs the last week because I felt a bit better and dived into programming.
    Also, I consider more generally what I want to do with my sites, and what I want to
    spend time on, if I have the energy.
     

  • Jan 21: me+ME: Uncertain diagnoses +Williams on Wessely: I outline some fundamental
    logical problems with vague definitions and vague diagnoses, and quote Ms Williams on
    Mr Wessely, who opened a new site. (That doesn't look like much, but then that is the
    measure of Mr Wessely's powers: he is devious and clever, but neither a real intellectual nor really intelligent. But then that is true of most professors in some pseudoscience.)
     

  • Jan 17: Crisis: "How to be a dictator" + "Wilders Rising...be warned":  I quote from
    and comment on two recent articles as described in the title, and also mention why
    you may not get to wikipedia.org or archive.org on Jan 18.
     

  • Jan 16: Dutch morality, medical morality, favorite explanation: I quote Multatuli and
    Diderot -     'a man who loves to moralize' - and follow their example, and explain Dutch
    and medical morality, again by some examples, and also consider the theme of favorite
    explanations, raised on The Edge, and provide my own answer, in one word.
     

  • Jan 14: Good news: "DSM-5-censorship fails": Ten days ago I asked Is the American Psychiatric Association a terrorist organization? because its legal branch had tried
    to smother an excellent site about the DSM-5, called "dsm5watch", on the totally
    ludicrous ground that the site's name contains "dsm5", to which the American Psychiatric
    Association claims copyright. Well... the site still exists, now renamed to
    Dx Revision Watch, and the A trics A has egg on its face, for many people, including
    psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health and social workers agreed this was
    bullying, indeed of the form called SLAPPing. I mostly quote dr Frances and Ms
    Chapman, and report an interesting fact derived from the APA's DSM-5 site: By their
    own figures, the American Psychiatric Association lost 2,000 members in half a year.
     

  • Jan 13: Uploaded all of Nederlog for this year with a new link in the last line:
    summaries, which links to the present text. And indeed explained this in Nederlog:
    Summaries added + The damnation ritual: This also is about anonymous cyber-
    bullying, when tens or hundreds anomymous jerks announce that so-and-so is evil,
    often in the - not or hardly moderated - comments sections of some blog or site.
     

  • Jan 12: Varia: Smalltalk, Squeak, X-Rx, Christian loving awareness: I impart some
    teachings about programming and about Christian morality, humility and meeknes.

    And I repaired the opening pages' statement on Nederlog, which used to be in Dutch
    but the last two years was mostly in English. Also linked in the 2012 index instead
    of the 2009 one. (My bad: Taking things for granted as time flies!)

  • Jan 11: 10 years of Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp: What the title says. Nearly
    all is quoted from Wikipedia and The times they are a'changin' - 1964/2012.
     

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  • Jan 10: Philosophical Dictionary updated (some):  Just that and not much, at least
    not in text. I also copied my edition of William James "The Will To Believe" with my
    critical notes to the James-section on my site, but this needs some straightening out,
    though the links to my notes work.
     

  • Jan 8: GW: A few of Lichtenberg's aphorisms: What the title says - 11 aphorisms by
    Lichtenberg - undeservedly little known by native English speakers - with some
    comments by me.
     

  • Jan 7: Crisis: Corporate psychopaths - part A: The start of a series on the subject
    as part of the Crisis series, that I started in Dutch on September 1, 2008, and
    reached - somewhat to my own amazement - number 98 today, at the beginning
    of this year where the US Constitution has been destroyed; the double dip in the
    economy seems to start; and the few rich are getting richer and the many poor
    poorer. I give some explanations of an important background: In Brian Basham's
    words:     "In an unregulated world, the least-principled people rise to the top."
     

  • Jan 6: GW: Against discrimation, racial and otherwise: A fine quotation by Hazlitt,
    from the Memoir of Granville Sharp, about racial discrimination, with an application by
    me to discrimination of the ill.
     

  • Jan 5: GW: The times they are a'changin' - 1964/2012: "I'm a poet/and I know it", as
    Bob Dylan wrote. I can rhyme too, and changed the lyrics of an old song to fit the
    new times introduced by the end of the US Constitutional Rights. Enjoy! Sing along!
     

  • Jan 4: Is the American Psychiatric Association a terrorist organization?: It seems
    to me (a psychologist and scientific philosopher who believes psychiatry is a
    pseudoscience anyway) that the question is quite justified given the way their menials
    menace, threaten, harass and pursue private persons who merely did - politely, rationally,
    honestly, in good faith     - what the APA itrself fails to do: Put together a good site
    about the DSM-5 that helps to discuss the DSM-5 rationally and honestly.

    Forgot to add that I did manage to add the analytical index of 2011. See Jan 1 below.
     

  • Jan 3: Crisis: Exit US-Constitution?!: President Obama seems to have effectively
    signed away important parts of the US Constitution. I comment a little and provide
    links.

    And I redid all of Nederlog 2012 because I want the standard images I use - left,
    up, right, globe, blue background - to be in the same directory, where they are now.
    (This I did not do at all or only partially in earlier years and elsewhere on the site,
    and is one of the things I want to straighten out.)
     

  • Jan 2: ME: dr. Peterson's talk & slides + Margaret Williams' article: These are two
    very nice contributions most people with ME/CFS seem to have missed so far: A
    lecture by dr. Peterson, also on vimeo, with three files of slides, all very well done,
    and an article by Margaret Williams on professor Wessely's latest lies and bullshit,
    with a very nice quote by professor Charlton explaining what "evidence-based
    medicine - professor Wessely's very own kind, as it also is what the American
    Psychiatric Association pushes and peddles - really is: Zombie science.

    Also uploaded today all year indexes of Nederlog and Nedernieuws, with 2012 included.
     

  • Jan 1: me+ME: ME by the Official Rules (as is and to be) - year 34: Actually, a
    repeat of yesterday, with a few additions, because I think the theme of psychiatry
    gone quite crazy and immoral is important. Later today there will be an analytical
    index on the additions and changes to the site in 2011, using the Recent Changes
    file for 2011. Also, I added my e-mail address to the E-mails file.

    And I did manage to get this finished: Nederlog 2011: Overview and analytical index

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