Re: [ThomasSzaszDiscussion] God told him to do it, and he said 'Yeah, okay.'
Alan Forrester wrote:
> The researchers made up some drinks that tasted as one
> would normally expect alcoholic drinks to taste, but which did not
> actually contain any alcohol. They also made up a bunch of drinks
> that didn't taste as one would normally expect alcoholic drinks to
> taste but which did in fact contain alcohol.
I read about this experiment in Stanton Peele's book (see: http://www.metzelf.info/Book%20Reviews/Diseasing.html) What the
researchers set out to (dis)prove, is the claim that alcoholics can only
control their drinking if they completely abstain from it. The
experiment was not related to the effects of toxification. The levels of
toxic substance necessary for that were not used in the experiment.
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