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[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 points 8 hours ago

Stage names are common for marketing something catchy. Book author aliases too.

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 14 points 7 hours ago

JK Rowling used her initials because the publisher thought the books would sell better under a less feminine name. She now uses an even more masculine pen name for her detective novels. There's nothing wrong with that in and of itself, but it's kind of hypocritical given her outspoken anti-trans viewpoints.

[-] odelik@lemmy.today 11 points 7 hours ago

She now uses an even more masculine pen name for her detective novels.

Hilarious that a TERF is using a masculine pen name for her book sales.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

People should start calling her Book Trans or something and call her the fuck out

[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 hours ago

Robert Galbraith Heath (May 9, 1915 – September 21, 1999) was an American psychiatrist.[1][2] He followed the theory of biological psychiatry, which holds that organic defects are the sole source of mental illness

Indeed, he has been cited as the first, or one of the first, researcher(s) to have placed electrodes deep into the brains of living human patients.[15][1] It has been suggested that this work was financed in part by the government, particularly the CIA or U.S. military.[16][17][18]

In 1972, he attempted using DBS to change a homosexual man to heterosexuality, which caused temporary arousal, but did not lead to long term change in attractions.[19] Heath also experimented with psychosurgery, the drug bulbocapnine to induce stupor, and LSD,[20][21][22] using African-American prisoners in the Louisiana State Penitentiary as experimental subjects.[23] He worked on schizophrenia patients, which he regarded as an illness with a physical basis.[24] Today Heath's work is considered highly controversial and is only rarely used as reference material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Galbraith_Heath

happy accidents, by JustKidding, Rowling

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