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Pinkham began selling her 'medicine' in 1873, winning satisfied customers with such crowd-pleasing ingredients as black cohosh, true and false unicorn, liferoot plant, dandelion, and the ever-popular pleurisy root--with a whopping dose of alcohol thrown in "purely as a solvent...
...AIDS, "anyone caught in a homosexual act [should be] summarily executed." Think about that for a minute. A student group at Harvard has sponsored a speaker who called for the extermination of gay people. This is made no less chilling by the fact that Cameron is a crackpot, thrown out of professional organizations by psychologists and sociologists. Even if he is a charlatan, where were the sponsors of the event? Did they stand up and dissociate themselves from his statements? Does the Conservative Club believe that killing gay people is something worth; talking about? The Conservative Club owes gay people...
...Conservative Club apparently feels obliged to pander to the most bigoted and ignorant elements of th Harvard-Radcliffe community. Their speaker, Paul Cameron, was thrown out of both the American Psychological Association and eschewed from the group of professional sociologists for falsifying evidence in his research. Even a cursory reading of Wednesday's Crimson [Sept. 25] review of the event reveals Cameron to be a crackpot in a major way; he is a maverick without support from any legitimate public health professional...
Thousands of applications for research grants have inundated the 70-member staff of the Government's new Strategic Defense Initiative Organization. Thrown together hastily last year, SDIO still occupies temporary headquarters in a dingy Washington office building, which also houses an Interior Department group that regulates fish hatcheries. Soon the Star Warriors will move to a new building complex in suburban Virginia near the Pentagon. So far, SDIO administers some 1,000 contracts worth $1.1 billion for studies aimed at developing such products as lethal laser beams and lightning-quick battle computers...
...political reaction than a genuine scientific critique. Indeed, some of the attacks on Star Wars come from scientists whose work has nothing to do with space technology. Contends James Ionson, the astrophysicist who heads SDIO's Innovative Science and Technology Office: "The only ones who complain about money being thrown around are those who are not in the way of the money...