Theos-Talk Archives (October 2002 Message tt00165)

--- In theos-talk@y..., Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> Let's see now, did the U.S. government bust him for knowing 
too much
> about UFO's, or for advocating the violent overthrow of the U.S.
> government? Regardless of the former, I suspect that the latter got 
more
> attention among the law-enforcement establishment.

I thought Wilhelm Reich was busted for promoing orgone energy 
collectors or something like that, the scientific validity of which 
was questioned by the FDA. Is my memory wrong? Fortunately, the 
Access to Medical Treatment Act of 1994 probably would preclude the 
intellectual marketplace being protected quite that paternalistically 
now.

Far worse, Wilhelm Reich was a psychoanalyst, which is a more 
dangerous fraud than his orgone energy theories. I have known people 
who spent years getting their potty training analyzed before they 
came to the simple realization that potty training analysis is a pile 
of crap. "Psychoanalysis" has been blessed by the medical 
profession, whereas the more benign nonsense of orgone energy has not.