1) Before It's Too Late: A Scientists's Case FOR Nuclear Energy by Bernard L. Cohen, Foreword by Nobel Laureate Rosalyn S. Yalow, 292 pp., hdbd., $16.95, Plenum Press (233 Spring St., New York, NY 10013). If history finds this an age when the Paul Ehrlichs were consecrated as experts by the media moguls, it will also find it an age when a Bernard Cohen was silenced by their censorship. A book for anyone who still values truth in an age of hypocrisy, superstition, witch hunts and mendacity. Everything about nuclear power, including costs, bombs and oysters glowing in the dark; by Cohen at his Cohenest. Go from bookstore to bookstore and make them get it.
2) Who is the No. 2 enemy of gas decontrol? The pipeline companies. Of airline decontrol? The airlines. Of privatizing public lands? The timber companies. (The No. 1 enemy, of course, is the MetzenOttingerra Club.) See "Forest Socialism" by B. Ramsey, Reason, Dec. 83, and note R. Poole's editorial in the same issue (but above all, J.E. Oberg's "Andropov's Orbiting Bombs
¾the Soviets" Outer-Space 'Peace' Strategy.)3) "...For the above-mentioned reasons the government should create an Interstate Commerce Commission to protect the American people from the evil of the railroads and to preserve the canals for posterity," wrote the Governor of New York. "As you well know, Mr. President, railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 mph by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to crops, scaring the livestock and frightening women and children." Carey to Reagan on Shoreham? No, Martin Van Buren to Andrew Jackson, 31 Jan. 1829. See Congressional Record 9/15/83, p.H 6972 (Rep. Lujan, R-N.M.); full text of letter also in Fort Freedom (see above).
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Vol. 11, No. 4
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Issues Issue/No.: Vol. 11, No. 4 Date: November 29, 2004 11:17 AM Title: From pseudoscience to war
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