Here here.  All opinion polls of what workers are most trusted rank the same two jobs at the top of the list: firefighters and nurses.  All my experience in a healthcare workers union is that those polls reflect reality: people really do trust nurses, because nurses really do have generally high ethical standards that probably spring in part from the psychological makeup of a working-class person who decides they're going to take a very demanding high-skill job in healing people.  The many awful and broken aspects of our healthcare system aren't the fault of the nurses or other workers in it.  I will take a look at that study, but any gobbledygook about althusser and anxiety in institutions etc etc misses the obvious reality that nurses are seen as, and are, beloved and trustworthy high-skill workers.  A great, great deal of our big-picture strategy on rebuilding the labor movement involves putting nurses front and center on a lot of our battles, bc the public is less likely to turn against nurses than "lazy overpaid public-sector workers" or whatever.  Sciensism and anti-humanism in althusser?  What on earth do these words mean?  This is why I always fly off the handle and say things like leftists need to get out of the academy and rejoin planet earth. <div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Just think a little.  Nurses were liked and respected among the people I knew in my Schnectady childhood mostly because they were the only "profession" the General Electric workers and the shopkeepers could relate to.  The nurses were all from the same social background as my family people where-as the doctors were often respected and feared but were obviously educated and from a different class.  Friends of my mother often aspired to be nurses as the one "profession" truly open to them, which could provide them with independence.  In many ways nursing was considered a "working class profession. Further, it was nurses that did most of the caring, that actually talked to patients about what the doctors said.  The attitude of my mother and my family toward nurses remained just about the same for many years. Anecdotal for sure, but where does any of what Ted presents fit into any of this? > > This will also explain the association between psychotic psychopathology and > the misidentification of "science" with "anti-humanism" as in Althusser. > Oh, yes you are so silly, my dear boy. </blockquote></div>