FULLERTON-BASED NATIONAL GUARD UNIT UNDER INVESTIGATION IN IRAQ; SAN DIEGO MAYORAL RACE; AFL-CIO LABOR SPLIT; FREAKONOMICS; MADHOUSE
FULLERTON-BASED NATIONAL GUARD UNIT UNDER INVESTIGATION IN IRAQ
A Fullerton-based company of the California Army National Guard is under investigation in Iraq for detainee abuse and extortion of shopkeepers. The 130-soldier company has been put on restricted duty and its commander, Lt. Col. Patrick Frey, suspended while the army reviews the allegations. Larry Mantle talks with LA Times California correspondent Rone Tempest and Hal Kempfer of the United States Marine Corps Reserve.
SAN DIEGO MAYORAL RACE
Eleven candidates appeared on Tuesday's ballot for mayor of San Diego. Larry talks about the election results with Tony Perry, San Diego Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times.
AFL-CIO LABOR SPLIT
How will Southern California labor unions be affected by the national split? Larry Mantle talks with Ruth Milkman of the UCLA Institute for Industrial Relations and Patrick Kelly, Secretary-Treasurer for the Teamsters’ Local 952.
FREAKONOMICS
So-called “rogue economist,” Steven D. Levitt and author Stephen J. Dubner join Larry Mantle to talk about their surprising and amusing New York Times bestseller Freakonomics. The book uses economics that show that much conventional wisdom and many “facts” that we take for granted are downright wrong.
MADHOUSE
In 1907 Dr. Henry Cotton took charge of New Jersey’s state insane asylum, convinced that mental illness was caused by bacterial infection in the body. For over 20 years he began a program of removing teeth, tonsils, uteruses, and colons, often forcibly, believing that if he could remove hidden infections, he could cure the insane. He claimed an 85% cure rate, when the death rate from his colon surgery was close to 30%. The operations continued unabated until Cotton’s death in 1933, and in fact teeth removal at the Trenton asylum was still routine up until 1960. University of California San Diego Professor of Sociology and Science Andrew Scull has just written an expose of this medical horror story, and its cover-up, called Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine. Larry Mantle talks with the author.
FULLERTON-BASED NATIONAL GUARD UNIT UNDER INVESTIGATION IN IRAQ
A Fullerton-based company of the California Army National Guard is under investigation in Iraq for detainee abuse and extortion of shopkeepers. The 130-soldier company has been put on restricted duty and its commander, Lt. Col. Patrick Frey, suspended while the army reviews the allegations. Larry Mantle talks with LA Times California correspondent Rone Tempest and Hal Kempfer of the United States Marine Corps Reserve.
SAN DIEGO MAYORAL RACE
Eleven candidates appeared on Tuesday's ballot for mayor of San Diego. Larry talks about the election results with Tony Perry, San Diego Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times.
AFL-CIO LABOR SPLIT
How will Southern California labor unions be affected by the national split? Larry Mantle talks with Ruth Milkman of the UCLA Institute for Industrial Relations and Patrick Kelly, Secretary-Treasurer for the Teamsters’ Local 952.
FREAKONOMICS
So-called “rogue economist,” Steven D. Levitt and author Stephen J. Dubner join Larry Mantle to talk about their surprising and amusing New York Times bestseller Freakonomics. The book uses economics that show that much conventional wisdom and many “facts” that we take for granted are downright wrong.
MADHOUSE
In 1907 Dr. Henry Cotton took charge of New Jersey’s state insane asylum, convinced that mental illness was caused by bacterial infection in the body. For over 20 years he began a program of removing teeth, tonsils, uteruses, and colons, often forcibly, believing that if he could remove hidden infections, he could cure the insane. He claimed an 85% cure rate, when the death rate from his colon surgery was close to 30%. The operations continued unabated until Cotton’s death in 1933, and in fact teeth removal at the Trenton asylum was still routine up until 1960. University of California San Diego Professor of Sociology and Science Andrew Scull has just written an expose of this medical horror story, and its cover-up, called Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine. Larry Mantle talks with the author.