Detecting Lies Scientifically

Early in Aggravated there is a scene where a sheriff’s deputy interrogates Steve, and tells him he knows Steve is lying because he had been tracking Steve’s eye movements. Steve has a glass right eye, so he took off his glasses, tapped the right eyeball with his fingernail, generating a clacking sound, and said, “Which …

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Dixon’s Book – Part 3

Views on Homosexuality This is another example of what I believe is Ada Dixon’s misguided, unscientific approach to counseling. She claimed in her book, Overcoming and Dealing With a World of Abuse, that sexual addiction “manifests itself in various ways, including promiscuity, pornography, and homosexuality.” That statement is apparently Dixon’s own belief. It isn’t attributed …

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Dixon’s Book – Part 2

Unscientific Nature In the previous post I took issue with inaccurate statistics Ada Dixon used in her book, Overcoming and Dealing With a World of Abuse, showing that she cited data which I believe wildly misrepresented the amount of sexual abuse which goes unreported. If I have misused any data in Aggravated or on this …

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