This is a question that I have been asked many many times in my life.Content warnings for the article: detailed ableism, COVID, ABA (applied behavior analysis), racism and racist phrases, eugenics, verbal and emotional abuse, transphobia, rambly, occasional caps, death“You’re too blunt”“Always go to her for the brutal honest truth”“You…
In 2011, a scandal broke in psychology that made everyone question whether any of its research could really be believed. For the last decade, psychology has grappled with the aftermath and has tried to understand what went wrong. The ensuing crisis of confidence comes from a replication crisis in the…
In this episode we talk with Dr. Cristina Visperas about her new book “Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory”, which explores the shocking past of the now-abandoned Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia. For decades Dr. Albert Kligman conducted unethical and harrowing medical experiments on Holmesburg’s inmates – in…
