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From: c23vgs@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Victor Sperry)
Subject: Re: Roger Penrose's new book
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In article <38homn$r83@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>, tom@astro.as.utexas.edu (Tom Benedict) writes:
> Alan Turing was part of a secret branch of the British government, and so
> wasn't a "war hero" as such during his lifetime.  The ramifications of this
> didn't really set in until it became public knowledge that he was a homosexual.
> Since the government couldn't lay claim to him,  they were unable to protect
> him from the law (which, at that time treated homo-sexuality as a mental
> disorder.)  He was given shock treatment, and later committed suicide.
> 
I seem to remember that Turing was also forced to undergo some
kind of drug therapy to curb his "deviant behavior" and that
this may have contributed to the mental state that caused him
to take his life.

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