[W]e could find no evidence that physicians ever used electromechanical vibrators to induce orgasms in female patients as a medical treatment [for hysteria].
I always thought that whole "Victorian physicians used vibrators to treat female hysteria" thing seemed fishy...
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We examined every source that Maines cites in support of her core claim. None of these sources actually do so.
I wonder if, when NLP is sufficiently robust, one could automate this fact-checking process en masse...