1) [Memo to librarian of his school, 11/22/83]: "...A librarian should insure that a good cross section of information is available in the library. A librarian could assist a teacher by pulling together a variety of information on a subject, but not by trying to change the teacher's political thinking... Cancel the publication 'Access to Energy' immediately and remove it from the library."
Gene Heinle, Principal, Central Linn High School, School District 552-C, Halsey, OR 97348 (tel. 503/688-7730). [We salute, in admiration and gratitude, the courage of librarian Francis Fitzpatrick, to whom this memo was addressed, for permitting us to quote from it.]
2) Forbes (5 Dec) apologizes for confusing Commoner in the British Inquiry [AtE] with a man who had "a similar-sounding name." The man whom Sir Walter Marshall characterized as "as close to an idiot as one could find" was actually Komanoff, which makes no difference to the essence of the story. Komanoff, however, has no inkling of physics, which puts him at a level high above Commoner's puerile misconceptions.
3) The "historical" 1829 letter to President Jackson, quoted by Rep. Lujan [AtE], turned out to be a fake. [We thought it fishy and put a warning in Fort Freedom for which we had no space in AtE¾now we have to use up more.]
4) Prof. Thomas Gold's views on the inorganic origin of the earth's methane are reported in a heart-warming article on the front page of the Dec. 13 Wall St. J. (Heart-warming? It always warms our hearts when we find ourselves two years [Nov. 81] ahead of the American press; they are only now beginning to find out that the Soviet nuclear program is in trouble.) Apart from the scientific reasons that we reported at the time, Gold asks "Why did all dinosaurs go to the Persian Gulf to die?" We are not qualified to make judgements in geology, but anyone who drives Mobil up the wall (they place free-market ads as they pour money into PBS) can't be all bad. Gold, by the way, appears to be in the same department of Cornell U. as Sagan, showing that not everybody at all universities is bad¾just like most of your beer is still good after someone spits into it.
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Vol. 11, No. 5
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Issues Issue/No.: Vol. 11, No. 5 Date: November 29, 2004 11:24 AM Title: Not since Galileo
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