the U.S. Army's surgeon general, General Kevin Kiley, appeared before the national convention of the American Psychological Association (APA) dressed in full combat uniform to defend the participation of psychologists in interrogation. "Psychology," he declared, invoking a military maxim that many p
Alfred McCoy, Hebb, the CIA and Torture
โ Scribed by Richard E. Brown
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 74 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5061
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
How could McCoy come to this conclusion? In order to answer this, I have examined the statements made by McCoy and many of the archives, memoirs, records, and books relevant to Hebb's research that were available to McCoy. Based on my (incomplete) research, I found the following problems with McCoy's treatment of Hebb's research.
- McCoy's chapter is not in chronological order and flips back and forth between the 1950s and 1960s such that it is not possible to determine if A came before B, at the same time, or later. This makes it seem that Hebb worked with others when he did not. 2. Many of the quotations used in Chapter 2 are footnoted in such a way as it is difficult to find the source of the text in quotations. For example, I have not been able to locate
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