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Part of the "Lying: a
Scientology practice" serie.
The
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) falsely
claimed that its touring exhibit, "Psychiatry:
Industry of Death", was co-sponsored by
Howard University,
and when the lie was spotted
by an astute reader, the evidence
for this lie was (tentatively) removed from the web.
Howard University was not co-sponsoring the event, but
was simply renting space to CCHR, and in the end, Howard
University decided not to rent a space to CCHR, as reported
by Dr. David S.
Touretzky in a press release:
Howard University Cancels Scientology's Anti-Psychiatry
Exhibit November 1, 2006.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR),
an anti-psychiatry hate group run by the Church
of Scientology, will not be allowed to put on its
touring exhibit, "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death",
at Howard University this month. Located in Washington,
DC, Howard is one of the nation's leading historically
black universities.
The exhibit had been scheduled for November 20-26
at the Armour J. Blackburn Center on Howard's campus.
Although the university was only renting space to CCHR, not
co-sponsoring the exhibit as CCHR had falsely claimed(1),
university administrators realized that providing
a forum for CCHR's outrageous misrepresentations
would be a disservice to their students. If CCHR
is to be believed, the Howard University Medical
School Department of Psychiatry — like all departments
of psychiatry — is a haven for greedy drug pushers
acting in collusion with the pharmaceutical industry,
and cruel sadists who torture patients with lobotomies
and electric shocks. CCHR's propaganda, defaming
the university's medical professionals and discouraging
students from seeking mental health services when
needed, has no place at an institution of higher
learning.
Howard's decision comes three days after the
CBS News program 48 Hours Mystery ran a story on
CCHR and the death of Elli Perkins. Perkins, a Scientologist,
was stabbed to death in 2003 by her adult son, Jeremy,
who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia(2).
Due to her Scientology beliefs reinforced by CCHR's
anti-psychiatry propaganda, Perkins had refused
to allow her son to receive medical treatment that
could have quieted his delusions and prevented her
tragic death.
(1) see
http://PerkinsTragedy.org/archive/cchr-howard-univ-2006.jpg
(2) see
http://PerkinsTragedy.org,
and
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/25/48hours/main2124568.shtml
Dr. David S. Touretzky
Research Professor
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15123-3891
"AJ Simkatu",
Nov. 12th, 2006:
For some reason my e-mail program wasn't checking
my e-mail over the last week, but I just discovered
that my letters to the faculty and administration
on 10/29 were very much appreciated by a number
of people at Howard Univ. I received 3 personal
responses from Howard Univ. administrators and faculty.
They promised to take action, and they weren't kidding,
because apparently it didn't take more than 2 days
for Howard Univ. to tell Scientology to shove it.
They weren't happy that Scientology was lying about
their relationship.
[Source:
alt.religion.scientology newsgroup]
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CCHR falsely claimed that its touring
exhibit, "Psychiatry: Industry of Death", was co-sponsored by
Howard University:
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Fair use excerpt
As seen on the web as of Oct. 30th, 2006, cached
page retrieved from
Live Search (still cached as of Nov. 13, 2006.)
This page was
removed shortly after the false claim was uncovered
(see below.)
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Fair use excerpt
Citizens Commission on
Human Rights
invites you to the U.S. Grand Opening of
PSYCHIATRY: An Industry
Of Death
Touring Exhibit & Documentaries
Co-sponsored by
Howard Uninversity [sic] |
"AJ
Simkatu", Oct. 29th, 2006:
«I wonder if Howard University is aware that it is a co-sponsor
of the "Psychiatry: an Industry of Death" touring minstrel
show? The Church of Scientology
front-group, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)
put out a flier proclaiming that Howard University is a
co-sponsor of their touring exhibit: **************
Click this link to see their ad:
http://waterbug.typepad.com/waterbug/2006/10/psychiatry_an_i.html
Psychiatry: an Industry of Death
The new Psychiatry: An Industry of Death touring exhibit
& documentaries will be at the Blackburn Center, 2400 6th
Street NW, Washington DC, Nov 20 - 26 (closed for Thanksgiving
Thurs and Fri) open from 9 am to 9 pm daily. It is co-sponsored
by CCHR and Howard University.
*************
Howard University even has a medical school, so it seems
unlikely that it would participate in this Scientology nonsense
that claims that the holocaust and Nazism were created by
psychiatrists.
Is there just some odd-ball professor at Howard that
got involved, or is the entire Howard University administration
backing this nonsense?»
[Source:
alt.religion.scientology newsgroup"]
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