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I KNOW. He gets all argumentative about the semantics. He just critiqued this experiment and the experiment says "they gain admission" to a mental institute and Szasz says "they didn't <i>gain admission. They told the hospital they were hearing voices" That sounds like they gained admission to me! And then later he quotes himself using the same phrase of gaining admission like there's nothing amiss. Just cos he chose the words, that makes it fine.  Bah! He doesn't critique anything about the methodology or results or anything, just the semantics of the experimentor and insists it's based on deception. Social psyc experiments HAVE to be deceptive, that's why there are blind and double blind studies (double blind being acknowledged by Sasz, or at least it seemed to me, as being legit methods).