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Marilia Coutinho, Ph.D. , the #BaffledImmigrant
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1 / I read @IlhanMN tweet and, in my role of the #BaffledImmigrant, I stopped and asked: "wait: is this even legal? Here in the USA? Because in the "shithole" country where I come from, Brazil, you will lose your license and my be arrested if you do that". So I did some googling.
2/ Apparently, this has been a concern for the mental health community for a while. Take a look at this 2016 issue of the Journal of Medical Regulation:
jmr.fsmb.org/wp-content/upl…
3/ In 2011, this repulsive Republican presidential (then) hopeful from Minnesota, Rep. Michele Bachmann, was busted because the couple owned a conversion clinic.

thinkprogress.org/the-high-costs…
4/ And in 2016, governor @NYGovCuomo made it impossible for insurance companies to cover this abhorrent practice.

insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaki…
5/ In my role as #BaffledImmigrant, I remain baffled: how can this be legal? In this country? Here are the countries where it is illegal (it's torture). Important information: for the @WHO, homosexuality is not a disorder.
indiatoday.in/education-toda…
6/ Baffled, I find out that in the USA, MOST States accept conversion therapy.
lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/…
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1/ Savage capitalism? As I read a tweet from one of my twitter-friends, I wanted to compare the reckless behavior of the Trump administration with early stages of capitalist development. I was looking for "savage capitalism" or "primary capital accumulation". Sources?
2/ Obviously, nowhere to be found when you need them in your computer. So I googled both and found @davidgraeber's article:
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3/ His point, or rather Thomas Piketty's point, was that "Capitalism does not contain an inherent tendency to civilize itself." Yeah, well, but... didn't we always assume that? (read on)
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Marilia Coutinho, Ph.D. , the #BaffledImmigrant
@mariliacout
1/ I first heard about harm reduction by a young professor on a TED talk about hackers as a vulnerable group (the hacktivists, who are socially awkward and highly committed to causes). Here she is: @violetblue
2/ Here is @violetblue's slideshare presentation:
slideshare.net/violetblue/hac…
3 / Today my @statnews newsletter brought me this surprisingly nice article on harm reduction V sobriety in addiction. It's the type of thing evangelicals hate, so it must be good.
statnews.com/2019/04/11/har…
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Marilia Coutinho, Ph.D. , the #BaffledImmigrant
@mariliacout
1 / Who reads what - I subscribe a few professional notification systems for my research use, some newsletters from the fitness industry to track how much they are maliciously neglecting or misusing science and Google USA trends, to check the trending search terms by ranking.
2/ Political issues very rarely make it to the top. That doesn't mean the number of Americans reading about politics is too small (it is, but this is not the indicator). It means they are not checking anything.
3/ Older American adults, those that also vote more, are driving the trend towards closing the gap between traditional and online (cellphone) sources for their political news needs:
pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017…
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