GOOD READING

The third blockbuster in a row! "A Chronology of Nuclear Medicine 1600-1989" (496pp., hdbd., $58.50 ppd., Heritage Publictns., Box 31262, St. Louis, MO 63131) by the father of nuclear medicine, the incomparable Marshall Brucer, M.D., writ-ten with his inimitable caustic humor. The simple chronology in-dudes a section "Radiation Hysteria" for every period, but the real treat are the "vignettes" with the most engrossing anecdotes, one more delightful than the other. Between 1910 and 1950 hundreds of thousand of patients received jumbo doses of radium, no one knows how many received how much. "We began to live long enough to get cancer, but no epidemic of cancer occurred . . . Twice of us live twice as long with half as much disease as before radium was discovered. Radium can't be all that bad." A real treasure for your library.

C.J. Sykes, The Hollow Men (356 pp., hdbd., $19.95, Regnery-Gateway) is far better than his previous book "ProfScam", which only dealt with the incompetence of the professoriat. This one deals with its politicization, devotion to left-wing totalita-rianism, and suppression of academic freedom.

Holiday Dinner Menu, the Amer. Council on Sci. & Health's annual menu, from appetizers to desserts, of carcinogens in natural foods, ACSH, 1995 Broadway, New York, NY 10023.

"It's official: CAFE kills!" CEI Update, 233 Penna. Ave., S.E./#200, Wash., DC 20003.

It will take more than one good article to make up for Audubon's antinuclear and alarmist demagoguery, but "Fuzzy-wuzzy thinking about animal rights" in the Nov. [1990] issue is definitely good reading.

Should you be interested in this writer's activities outside AtE, see T. Bethell, "A Challenge to Einstein," Ntl. Rev., 11/5/90.