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Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social |
Just found this 2020 NYT obit for Charles Wetli, the guy who invented excited delirium. He claimed a series of deaths of black sex workers were caused by a condition unique to black women in which they just drop dead after mixing sex & cocaine. They were actually murdered by a serial killer.
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The American Civil War Podcast
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It's a modern-day version of Draepetomania: a nonsense theory espoused by an Antebellum quack. It would hilarious if not so deadly serious.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapeto...
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Sleestak
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Is this the 'death gene' guy who claimed unrelated children in a foster home spontaneously died for no reason and it turned out was abuse.
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Land Moose
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Just thinking about how many millions of us will get fired if don't make enough phone calls in a month and this guy was out here reinventing whatever medicine was most convenient at the time
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Eric Horwitz
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they have a fatal genetic allergy to being murdered
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Cuntace Owens
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Soooo this guy was modern-day Josef Mengele?
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Fakenamold McBeeswax III
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How does someone even come up with that.
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Lauren McKenzie [free 🇵🇸]
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Holy fucking shit another time I actually hope there’s a hell
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Siagi
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Blame this guy for all Taser-related deaths.
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Gillian Branstetter
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What grim figure www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/u...
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Paul Stephenson
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There’s a great podcast episode by Jon Ronson about this on Things Fell Apart which draws the firecf link between his work and the murder of George Floyd
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Too sad for the black sex workers.
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RodianRomanovichWasRight
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Must've died from doing a serial murder while on cocaine
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Silence Dogood
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Goodness gracious. And I mocked past people for using lead in cosmetics. They walk among us...
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Paul Arzooman
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On Law & Order: CI, he would've ended up being the serial killer himself.
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Unrepentant 💙 Punk 🐇 🌻 🇪🇺 🏳️🌈 ⚧️ 💚 🐾 ❄️ 🌍 🐝
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FFS, 'excited delirium'? Has about the same degree of racist bullshit as drapetomania
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@misgivings.bsky.social
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What the actual fvck
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Rick does Math and Stuff
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This is troubling: At most crime labs ... ballistics analysts will “match” a bullet to a gun, but they will not “exclude” a particular bullet from having been fired from a particular gun as a matter of policy.
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Cadbury Creme Egg Enthusiast
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I wonder if that’s what the super crack gag in Frankenhooker comes from?
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Tonnielle
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😱
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Ceejopolis
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ME: Detective, We’ve got it narrowed down to two potential causes. 1. A thing no one has ever heard of that for some reason only happens to black women. 2. A serial killer. Det: ok let’s go with the one that gives me less work.
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Ethan “κακοθερής” Harfenist
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Evil legacy
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JayAllTheEms
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Learned about him just yesterday.
He went on to testify in (by his own estimate) a hundred lawsuits, absolving taser manufacturers of fault in lawsuits brought after people had died after being tased.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Woke Mechanic
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Lol just when you thought the TWA800 report couldn't get any more sus.
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@relaxedninja.bsky.social
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Florida-level medical takes.
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Radley Balko
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Wetli would later expand the condition to include black men, whom he theorized might have a genetic condition that causes them to (a) assume superhouman strength and imperviousness to pain, and (b) spontaneously die while in police custody.
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AM (Amber Mitchell)
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Ah, but he was an *expert* in drug-related deaths, I just read it somewhere.
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everyone knows it's wendy
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article on the topic including its relationship to police brutality
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Duke University Press
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We have a book about this coming out in August. "Excited Delerium" by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús. Happy to send you an advance copy if you'd like!
www.dukeupress.edu/excited-deli...
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toby1kenobi
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Jon Ronson did an episode on this, in his great "Things Fell Apart" series www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Jon Pennington
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Northern Calloway, the guy who played David on Sesame Street, suffered mental illness & died of “excited delirium” while institutionalized.
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Tom Tinkerer
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This! But it's a serial killer so sexually skilled the orgasms they give cause sudden death, until one day they meet a sex worker as skilled as he is, and sexual, orgasmically charged duel to the death takes place in a motel bed. Someone get a script on my desk by the end of the day.
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Jay Schiavone
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This guy’s fraudulent racist thesis led directly to the murder of George Floyd.
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Jay Schiavone
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He was so close to getting it.
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D6Bass
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The 'Things Fell Apart' podcast on him is rage inducing.
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Maggie McNeill
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Radley, have you written on that? I'd like to call attention to it in my blog.
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