, Department of Behavioral and Health Sciences
College of Arts Sciences
Baker University
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From: Christopher Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca]
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 7:19 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Somebody Please Smack This POS
Oops! Akin now
Make up your mind about what to do with someone like this. Consider
this a teachable moment and think about what and how to teach it; see:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/08/19/todd-akin-gop-senate-candidate-legitimate-rape-rarely-causes-pregnancy/
Note: people have
I recall there have been a couple of others with this bizarre bit of
rationalization. I teach Human Sexuality, so I have a file:
Rep. Henry Aldridge, Republican from North Carolina:
*1995-04-21 04:00:00 PDT Raleigh, N.C.* -- Women do not get pregnant when
raped because the juices don't flow,
Newsflash! Rep. Akin sits on the House Committee on Science, Space and
Technology.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-rep-todd-akin-no-pregnancy-from-legitimate-rape-20120819,0,7447581.story
Oh, the irony.
Chris
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Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Oops! Akin now says that he misspoke. Words came out of his mouth that were
not first formed in his brain? He was mistaken and has since learned better? He
will say anything at all to get his way, but wasn't smart enough to know that
these particular words were not going to help him get what he
Regarding seeing him, I surely hope so!
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca wrote:
Oops! Akin now says that he misspoke. Words came out of his mouth that
were not first formed in his brain? He was mistaken and has since learned
better? He will say
