If this is the first time for you to visit a special welcome to you. We have a fabulous library which is available to the public for research this evening tony from the Historical Society will do the honors so well take a moment to greet everyone and now we will turn it over to tony. [applause] thank you gavin has put on a number of programs here including some definitive conversations well over a year ago which is where i first met him. Its a pleasure for me to have the task of introducing. Before i began its a lifetime of a career based in the premise vital to civilization and i think liz has captured that i will tell you one story about ed how i felt about him. The first time i met him i was about 25 years old the first week in the urban Development Corporation although i knew the agency and very anxious to go to work for him again. It happened on a very odd day we were working at the Burlington House we were the only tenants in the building at the time because the fisher brothers c
To test the legitimacy of Psychiatric Hospitals. A group of colleagues and i gained admission to Psychiatric Hospitals in simulating by faking a symptom a simple system. We said we heard voices. He voices said, empty, dull the moment we were admitted to the hospital, we abandoned our symptom, and we behaved the way we usually behave. The question was, would anyone detect we were sane . The answer was, no. Your new book, the great pretender, centers around the story of this man. Who is he . Susannah he is a stanford professor named David Rosenhan. He was the architect of this study. Inis called on being sane insane places. He and seven other people went undercover in Psychiatric Hospitals around the country. Their mission was to test the nature of diagnosis to see if their sanity would be detected. As he said, they were not. The study was done in the early 1970s. Why are you interested in it today . Susannah it came from a personal place. I emerged from my book, my memoir, brain on fire
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President trump. Emails a bid to return to the white house. This time he is charged with four counts of a special counsels investigation looking into the January 6th Assault on the capital. Leading efforts to overturn the 20 20 election. A growing chorus of critics is calling it a double standard. They are comparing the dojs treatment of trump so far. Their Potential Wrongdoing involving Mishandling Documents in Shady Business deals All Over The World basically given a free pass. And republican congressmen connecting the dots between trumps indictment and the Blockbuster Revelations of this past monday from devon archer. Is not coincidental. Its a day after you get is testimony which is really pretty to the biden family. And the president gets indicted. Investigating hunter biden in joe biden in the biden family syndicate. More and more evidence is coming every single day. This is not going to deter us from our duty which is to investigate the president of the United States is corrupt.