So many of these "research" psychologists are just sociopaths
Israel then decided to build a school for people with disabilities, as he knew that he would be able to practice behaviorism on them with very few restrictions.[4] After starting the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, he gave up on further attempts to build a utopia because he was getting so much satisfaction from running the school.
Guy is really gunning to make the nation of Israel somehow not the worst entity named Israel.
everyone who works there needs to be dragged out into the street and shot
This is unfortunately perfectly in line with a big chunk of the US. There's a whole branch of theology in the James Dobson vein that dominates the US, which holds that disobedience is a sin and that the only "loving" response is physical punishment until the disobedience stops in order to save their soul
The JRC is known for its use of the graduated electronic decelerator (GED), a device that administers electric shocks to residents through a remote control.
Jesus Christ what is there even to say to something like this? Literal torture and yet in good ol' Christian USA it's all legal.
my only response to this would probably best be depicted as a series of increasingly unhinged emoji
Christians actively think torture and suffering is good.
70 million dollars annual revenue
Death to america
An autistic creator has done a miniseries on the Judge Rot(t)enberg Center here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlODcc7GGsYTD7Nzg4F-pAuYe1fpZQ9hB
It was renamed after Judge Rotenberg who wrote a decision allowing it to stay open and continue shocking in the 1980's or 90's. This was despite plenty of evidence presented that it was frequently being used in violation of the centers own parameters for the "treatment". Low level staff had the unilateral power to administer shocks. Shocks were being administered for things like defecating in their diapers and refusing to eat.
Fuck Judge Rotenberg and the whole Massachusetts supreme court for allowing this to continue yet again.
In a surprise to absolutely no one, when you give a radical behaviorist carte blanche to do whatever he wants and no shortage of resources, he turns into Josef Mengele
the guy literally studied under Skinner
At one time, a group of parents sued the state for $15 million, contending that the state's attempts to close the institute violated their children's rights to treatment.[63] Additionally, Massachusetts state Representative Jeffrey Sanchez, whose nephew, Brandon, has been detained at the JRC since 1992, is a major proponent of the JRC and their practices. Sanchez has repeatedly blocked the passage of legislation that would threaten the center.[80]
Words really can't get across the rage I feel at reading about this betrayal of people by their own flesh and blood.
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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