"'Global Warming': A Lysenko-Like Challenge to the World Scientific Community" by Dwight D. Murphey in Conservative Review7, No. 4, July/August 1996, available from 1307 Dolley Madison Blvd., Room 203, McLean, VA 22 10 1. Lysenko was the Soviet "scientist" whose false theory that an organism passes environmentally- acquired properties genetically to the next generation was endorsed by Stalin because it aided Communist dogma. The forced acceptance of politically correct Lysenkoism set back Soviet research in the biological sciences for generations. The similarity to today's wrong but politically correct theory of global warming is very close.
"Life After Television" by George Gilder in the Gilder Technology Report 1, No.4, p 4, November 1996, available from Monument Mills, P. 0. Box 660, Housatonic, MA 01236. Gilder reports that 42% of American homes now have personal computers and that 1996 will probably be the year that PCs surpass TVs in number of units sold.
Crats by William E. Adams published by Old Drum Publishing, Box 401, Portersville, PA 1605 1. This is pure fiction but great entertainment for those who think that "bureaucrat" is a four-letter word.
"Scientific Grace Under Pressure" by David M. Kiefer in Today's Chemist at Work, pp 55-60, September 1996, published by the American Chemical Society. This is about the life and trials of Martin D. Kamen on the occasion of his receiving the Enrico Fermi Award in 1996. See alsoAccess to Energy 23, No. 5, pl, January 1996.
Cigarettes: What the Warning Label Doesn't Tell You, published by the American Council on Science and Health, 1995 Broadway, Second Floor, New York, NY 10023-5860. With an 8-year decrease in life expectancy per pack per day. cigarette smoking is very foolish.
Inventing the AIDS Virus by Peter H. Duesberg from Regnery Publishing, 422 First Street SE, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20003. Regardless of the final verdict on the cause of AIDS, which is still not determined, Duesberg's trials are important reading for anyone who seeks to understand the current illness of big-time tax-financed science.
"Translating, Elucidating and Explaining the Mathematics of Newton'sPrincipia" by Alan E. Shapiro,Physics Today, pp 8 l-82, November 1996. This is a review of four books which take different approaches to understanding the work of Isaac Newton and the physi- cal problems that were the subject of Principia Mathematics, the most important scientific publication ever written.
