GOOD READING

Doctors who can, do; doctors who can't, publish JAMA. It has published some of America's most superstitious garbage on radiation and nuclear wastes (though compared with the power industry the medical profession produces a lot more radiation and not much less waste). Yet when the competent doctors get together to formulate a policy, they have repeatedly upheld nuclear power as a far healthier alternative to fossil fuels, and the AMA's Council on Scientific Affairs has done so again in its report "Medical perspectives on nuclear power," JAMA, 17 Nov 89, pp. 2724-2729. Reprints available from USCEA, 1776 I ST NW/#400, Washington, DC 20009.

Safety/Risks; updated, better than ever! ANS, 555 N. Kensington Ave., La Grange Park, IL 60525, $10 each part.

Coalition for Animals and Animal Research counters the animal rights crazies in a good newsletter, CFAAR-LA, Box 183, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90024, available for a voluntary contribution.

Antinuke A. Nero's claim I have "an axe to grind" in the radon question, and my reply, HPS Newsletter, Jan 1990. (My reply also available in Fort Freedom.)

"The Truth about Public Television" by C.M. Lichenstein, and "Capturing the Culture" by C. Grenier, Imprimis, Jan. 1990 (Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI 49242, $1 ppd.).

[Founder of the Italian Communist Party] Antonio Gramsci believed that the way for Marxists to come to power was by taking over the cultural institutions of nations: schools, universities, churches, popular entertainment. By working within such institutions and fields, a small number of people could influence the thinking of thousands and even millions. Gramsci's vision has actually come to pass in the US, not so much a deliberate plan of a few, but more as a natural by-product of liberalism. The "long march through the institutions," an idea much bandied about by leftists in the sixties, is what Gramsci foretold.

Cynthia Grenier in Imprimis (see above).