Bruce Levine

Bruce Levine

“Cured” Filmmakers React to my Review of Their Upcoming PBS Doc

October 2nd, 2021

A new documentary about gay activists’ defeat of the APA ends with a disclaimer that ECT is “effective for severe depression.” Bruce Levine spoke with the filmmakers.

In a PBS documentary, ECT is Bad for “Curing” Homosexuality, but Great for Depression!

Mad in America October 2nd, 2021

A new documentary about gay activists’ defeat of the APA ends with a disclaimer that ECT is “effective for severe depression.” Bruce Levine spoke with the filmmakers.

Upcoming PBS Doc “Cured” About Gay Liberation from Psychiatry…and Much More

CounterPunch September 24th, 2021

Not that long ago, there was no public outcry directed at governments that had declared homosexuality a crime, churches that had declared homosexuality a sin, and psychiatry—the focus of Cured—that had declared homosexuality a sickness.

U.S. Authorities Pay No Price for Acknowledged Lying: What’s the Impact on Us?

CounterPunch+ March 28th, 2021

Presidents and other U.S. authorities have always been liars—just ask Native Americans. While lying to Native Americans has never been politically costly for U.S. presidents, getting caught lying by the entire American public was once politically damaging.

Politics & Science: Rahm Emanuel, Mike Pence, Homosexuality, Pandemics, Masks, Vaccines

CounterPunch February 19th, 2021

Aside from their icy-mobster visages, Rahm Emanuel and Mike Pence have something else in common. Both, as members of presidential administrations, tried to rewrite Centers for Disease Control (CDC) pandemic guidance for political purposes. The reason why one was successful and the other was not has nothing to do with courageous CDC scientists threatening to […]

COVID-19 Slaughter, CDC Tragedy, and One U.S. Authority without Blood on His Hands

CounterPunch+ January 10th, 2021

It is easy for progressives to blame the staggering calamity of U.S. COVID-19 deaths solely on Trump. Yes, Donald Trump is a self-serving liar, and his vice president, Mike Pence, as chair of the President’s Coronavirus Task Force and Trump henchman, has blocked life-saving guidance from scientific authorities. There is smoking-gun evidence (some of which […]