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Laetrile (1): The Goddamned-Contraband-Apricot Connection

It may not be the “magic bullet” but it scares the hell out of the American Cancer Society. Part I   “Laetrile is goddamned quackery.” — Helene Brown, Project Director, Community Cancer Control, former Chairman of the Board, American Cancer Society of California, Today’s Health, November,

Our America: One Family in Search of a Nation
May 20, 1976

COLUMBUS, Miss. — The shanty shacks began in Eastern Arkansas and paralleled the Mississippi River delta well into Mississippi. I couldn’t help but notice them sitting small and alone washed by still seas of brown earth that lapped gently at the edges of doorsteps. I

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Losing The War on Cancer: The ‘Awful Numbers’ Revisited

May 20, 1976    Inveighing ever more stridently against the cancer “quacks,” whose menace in reality is no more than that of mere sitting ducks, the American Cancer Society cautions us to keep our sights firmly on “progress” and “proven cures” in the billion-dollar-a-year “War

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The American Way of Brainwashing

The “brainwashing” defense of Patricia Hearst has sent newspaper writers scurrying for explanations of the apparently exotic process that transformed a happy heiress into a gun-toting bank robber with the improbable nom-de-moll of Tanya. None of these writers has sought to challenge “brainwashing” as a

Gerald Davison, left, teaches and does therapy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Charles Silverstein, right, is the director of the Institute of Human Identity, a gay counseling service in New York City.

Leaving the Gay Life Behind: Is it Choice or Coercion?

Note: One of the key issues in the debate over the psychological conditioning technology known as “behavior modification” is who should decide what behavior to modify, and on what basis. Critics of behavior modification say that when therapy reaches this point science dissolves into politics