This led to two forms of abuse; the first was the keeping of "legitimately" insane people in atrocious conditions, and the second the detention of those who were falsely claimed to be insane - in effect, private imprisonment. ... These people with mental disabilities, or rather, feeble minded, were defined by the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble Minded (1904-1908) as "persons who may be capable of earning a living under favorable circumstances, but are incapable from mental defect, existing from birth or from an early age: (1) of competing on equal terms with their ...

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His beliefs were that human beings possessed a type of sixth sense and that ordinary people could conduct their own research with a do-it yourself type guide to assist them. ... For example, he proposes that telepathy depends on social bonds, adding that the ability seems to be stronger in animals particularly in dogs than in most people (Sheldrake 2002). ... This was Baker's attempt to discredit Sheldrake's argument that if people were told that they would be stared at on a number of occasions, they might well be able to more accurately detect when they are being stared at. ... The ...

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