A French King Who Believed He Was Made of Glass

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Wikipedia article about the psychiatric disorder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_delusion

[acchow]

  All the king's horses
  And all the king's men
  Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty
  Together again

[thunderrabbit]

I wonder what beliefs we have about human anatomy that will seem quaint/ignorant in some hundred years.

[Razengan]

Involuntary circumcision of nonconsenting children, for one.

It should fall under “I can’t believe people were this barbaric” along with virgin sacrifices and other practices that seem inconceivable now, but were sanctioned by pseudoscience and public approval just as this is.

[d9h549f34w6]

I can think of several, but stating them publicly would lead to social shaming and loss of employment in the current dominant ideology of the tech world.

[vondur]

The poor guy was mentally ill. I believe he went on a murderous rampage and nearly killed his brother and did kill some of the royal attendants. He also led a huge invasion of Italy which ended up in defeat for the French.

[alricb]

It was Charles VIII the Affable (reigned 1483-1498), the great-grandson of Charles VI the Mad (reigned 1380-1422), who invaded Italy.

[enangel]

This is a Cervantes short story:

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

[sushid]

If you want to bring this up, you should be blaming MIT rather than JSTOR.

"Marty Weinberg, who took the case over from Good, said he nearly negotiated a plea bargain in which Swartz would not serve any time. He said JSTOR signed off on it, but MIT would not." [0]

[0] https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/15/humanity-defici...

[jacquesm]

Get your facts right, JSTOR asked the prosecutor to drop the charges.

[mv4]

Once I had a love and it was a gas

Soon turned out had a heart of glass

[jacquesm]

Blondie?