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The reasons were stated like criminal charges. The books of Sigmund Freud, for instance, were charged with spiritual corruption and “the exaggeration and unhealthy complication of sexuality.” After reading the charge, the student threw the book into the pile while declaring, “I commit to the flames the works of Sigmund Freud!”
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
Their argument, in essence, is that the *absence* of a correlation is itself evidence for atypical GABA functioning.
GABA, Autism, and the Correlation That Wasn’t There | DrBrocktagon
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The Ming had driven the Mongols out, but could not erase the threat that they posed. They were forced to devote more and more resources to their northern defence, a geostrategic burden whose visible part was the drive to complete the so-called Great Wall.
After Tamerlane
John Darwin
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