[tips] Why "It's The Day The U.S. Supreme Court Rendered the Dred Scott Decision Day"!
As the NY Times observes in its "On This Day": http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0306.html#article For those unfamiliar with the "Dred Scott Decision", there is an entry on Wikipedia (standard disclaimers apply): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_Decision Quoting from the Wikipedia entry: |Dred Scott v. Sandford,[1] 60 U.S. (How. 19) 393 (1857), was a decision |by the United States Supreme Court that ruled that people of African descent |imported into the United States and held as slaves, or their descendants[2]-whether |or not they were slaves-were not legal persons and could never be citizens of |the United States, and that the United States Congress had no authority to |prohibit slavery in federal territories. The Court also ruled that slaves could not sue |in court, and that slaves-as chattel or private property-could not be taken away |from their owners without due process. The Court in the Dred Scott decision sided |with border ruffians in the Bleeding Kansas dispute who were afraid a free Kansas |would be a haven for runaway slaves from Missouri. The Supreme Court's decision |was written by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. Interestingly, as the Wikipedia entry points out, the Dred Scott decision was never *directly* overturned, rather it is *implied* to be overturned by subsequent decisions and the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. However, it is important to keep the following in mind (quoting Wiki): |Justice John Marshall Harlan was the lone dissenting vote in the 1896 |Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson which legalized racial segregation |and created the concept of "separate but equal." In his dissent Harlan |wrote that the majority's opinion would "prove to be quite as pernicious |as the decision made by this tribunal in the Dred Scott case."[8] Perhaps it's a good day to have students participate in the Implicit Association Task (IAT) either at the http://opl.apa.org or at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ to see how far we've come since those days. It might also be useful to have them read this Op-Ed: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/opinion/21blow.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=%22A%20Nation%20of%20Cowards?%22&st=cse or http://tinyurl.com/b9nvae It might also be time to put "C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America") in the Netflix queue. See: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389828/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.S.A.:_The_Confederate_States_of_America Consider the role of psychology in treating a disorder like "drapetomania" in such an alternate history. For those unfamailiar with this once common disorder, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
RE: [tips] [Fwd: More stats humour from xkcd]
Chris, Your sense of humor is a bit "skewed." ' Jim Jim Matiya Florida Gulf Coast University jmat...@fgcu.edu Contributor, for Karen Huffman's Psychology in Action, Video Guest Lecturettes John Wiley and Sons. Using David Myers' texts for AP Psychology? Go to http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/cppsych/ High School Psychology and Advanced Psychology Graphic Organizers, Pacing Guides, and Daily Lesson Plans archived at www.Teaching-Point.net Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:05:56 -0500 From: chri...@yorku.ca To: tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Subject: [tips] [Fwd: More stats humour from xkcd] Another statistics cartoon (for those amused by such things). :-) Chris Green York U. Toronto == --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)<>
[tips] stats cartoon
Chris, Awesome. Thanks. Here is the web address for the cartoon http://xkcd.com/552/ Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 jfmuel...@noctrl.edu http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu ( http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/ ) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
[tips] Paul Shanley case and repressed memory
There's an interesting opinion piece by JoAnn Wypijewski in _The Nation_ Feb 25th on the Paul Shanley case, the infamous street priest convicted of child sexual abuse. Ho-hum. But Ms. W. gives it an interesting twist. He was convicted on the basis of repressed memory evidence, which research in psychology finds to be dangerous pseudoscientific nonsense. But it was not challenged during his trial. Shanley was allegedly neither a nice man nor a good priest. But Ms. W. thinks he could well be innocent, convicted by bad science. It now goes to the Supremes (in Massachusetts) where the science issue will at last be aired. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090316/wypijewski Stephen - Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: sbl...@ubishops.ca 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ --- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] Why "It's The Day The U.S. Supreme Court Rendered the Dred Scott Decision Day"!
On 6 Mar 2009 at 10:25, Mike Palij wrote: > As the NY Times observes in its "On This Day": > http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0306.html#article > > For those unfamiliar with the "Dred Scott Decision", there is an > entry on Wikipedia (standard disclaimers apply): > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_Decision To bring this up-to-date, and entering into a very difficult issue with only limited knowledge (how unusual for me!), I'd like to draw attention to the John Moore case decided by the California Supreme Court (John Moore vs Regents of the University of California, July 9, 1990) (at http://tinyurl.com/awxno9 ) They decided in their wisdom that Moore did not have ownership of his own tissues. In fact, a cell line derived from his tissues was a commercial hot property, worth at least millions, and possibly billions of dollars, none of which would accrue to Moore. And if a company can have the right to your tissues, a right which you yourself do not have, couldn't a company own _all_ of your tissues, i.e. own YOU? The issue is raised most recently in a BioNew (UK) commentary: "To hold property in one's own body is a strange philosophical conundrum as 'who' is doing the 'owning' of 'oneself'? Ethically it is also problematic, as does the 'ownership' of parts of bodies suggest that whole bodies and so persons can be owned? This was the worry of the judges who rejected Moore's claim to have property rights in his body" See http://www.bionews.org.uk/commentary.lasso?storyid=4219 _Science_ (not freely available) reported on this back in 1990. See: Barinaga, M. (1990). Science, July 20, p. 239. A Muted Victory for the Biotech Industry: A California court has ruled that patients don't own tissues removed from their bodies-but questions of consent remain On-line, you can check http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/reprint/3/5/1581.pdf But perhaps the best source is this great readable essay: Taking The Least of You Rebecca Skloot April 16, 2006 New York Times Magazine http://home.earthlink.net/~rskloot/TakingTheLeast.pdf (If you don't have time for the whole thing, skip down to the Moore case headed "The $3 Billion Man") or just read Michael Crichton's last novel, _Next_ (2006), where a disguised version of the Moore case figures prominently. Or skip to the afterword. He didn't like the decision very much. Oh yes. Priscilla Wald has a review which I haven't been able to get my hands on which alludes to the slavery issue. She calls the issue (the decision?) "bioslavery". See http://tinyurl.com/dctptm Wald, Priscilla. What's in a Cell?: John Moore's Spleen and the Language of Bioslavery New Literary History - Volume 36, Number 2, Spring 2005, pp. 205-225 Stephen - Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: sbl...@ubishops.ca 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ --- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] Paul Shanley case and repressed memory
Unless I am experiencing a "false memory" myself, I could have sworn I saw Elizabeth Loftus on Court TV testifying in that very case as an expert witness for the defense. I am surprised it wasn't mentioned in the article. Valerie J. Eastman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Department of Behavioral Sciences Drury University 900 N. Benton Springfield, Missouri 65802 veast...@drury.edu Office: 417-873-7305 Fax: 417-873-6942 - Original Message - From: To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 9:50 AM Subject: [tips] Paul Shanley case and repressed memory There's an interesting opinion piece by JoAnn Wypijewski in _The Nation_ Feb 25th on the Paul Shanley case, the infamous street priest convicted of child sexual abuse. Ho-hum. But Ms. W. gives it an interesting twist. He was convicted on the basis of repressed memory evidence, which research in psychology finds to be dangerous pseudoscientific nonsense. But it was not challenged during his trial. Shanley was allegedly neither a nice man nor a good priest. But Ms. W. thinks he could well be innocent, convicted by bad science. It now goes to the Supremes (in Massachusetts) where the science issue will at last be aired. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090316/wypijewski Stephen - Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: sbl...@ubishops.ca 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ --- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] Paul Shanley case and repressed memory
On 6 Mar 2009 at 11:48, Valerie Eastman wrote: > Unless I am experiencing a "false memory" myself, I could have sworn I saw > Elizabeth Loftus on Court TV testifying in that very case as an expert > witness for the defense. I am surprised it wasn't mentioned in the > article. No false memory there. You're right! (I see after checking it out). But it looks as though Loftus, the only defense witness called, didn't make a very convincing presentation. Certainly, the jury didn't buy it. See http://www.courttv.com/trials/shanley/020305_deliberations_ctv.html Stephen - Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: sbl...@ubishops.ca 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ --- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
[tips] Creative use of Language--sort of teaching related
Now I am cutting and pasting in one of those email jokes that we all get from friends only because (a) it's Friday; (b) spring break starts right now for me! (c) I love Tips; (d) and this is teaching related. All the politics aside it's amazing how many creative uses of language emerge from this long list duplicated here but I'm not sure what the original list for the actually created flavor came from--I suppose it might have been equally long and creative. BTW I doubt if this is a true story but it's not (yet) in snopes.com == Ben & Jerry created "Yes Pecan!" ice cream flavor for Obama. They asked people to suggest ideas for an ice cream flavor named to commemorate George W Bush. Here are some of their favorite responses: - Grape Depression - Abu Grape - Cluster Fudge - Nut'n Accomplished - Iraqi Road - Chock 'n Awe - WireTapioca - Impeach Cobbler - Guantanmallow - imPeachmint - Good Riddance You Lousy Motherf*cker... Swirl - Heck of a Job, Brownie! - Neocon Politan - RockyRoad to Fascism - The Reese's-cession - Cookie D'oh! - The Housing Crunch - Nougalar Proliferation (-- one of my personal favorites! at) - Death by Chocolate... and Torture - Freedom Vanilla Ice Cream - Chocolate Chip On My Shoulder - "You're Sh*tting In My Mouth And Calling It A" Sundae? - Credit Crunch - Mission Pecanplished - Country Pumpkin - Chunky Monkey in Chief - George Bush Doesn't Care About Dark Chocolate - WMDelicious - Chocolate Chimp - Bloody Sundae - Caramel Preemptive Stripe - I broke the law and am responsible for the deaths of thousands...with Nuts Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 tay...@sandiego.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
