Jo Kwong, Myths About Environmental Policy, 40-page book-let, Citizens for the Environment, 470 L'Enfant Plaza, SW/#7112 Washington, DC 20024, an offshoot of Citizens for a Sound Economy. No price given, but they are worthy of support.
Laboratory Animal Testing: an essential component of biomedical research, 49 p. booklet, $3.85, ACSH, 1995 Broad-way/16th fl., New York, NY 10016.
Prof B.N. Ames, "Pesticides and Cancer," excerpt from congressional testimony, Priorities, Winter 1991, ACSH (see above). Available in Fort Freedom.
Dr. E. Krug, "Save the planet, sacrifice the people: the en-vironmental party's bid for power," Imprimis, July 1991, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI 49242 (contrib. welcome). Available in Ft. Freedom.
Dr. E. Krug, "America's energy battle: a casualty speaks out," Citizen Outlook, Jul./Aug. 91 ($18/yr.), CFACT, Box 65722, Wash. D.C., 20035.
K. Jeffreys, "Riding the 'Ban' wagon: unsafe for any species," Update, June 91, CEI, 233 Penna. Ave., SE, Wash., DC 20003. Contrib. welcome.
"Geothermal Tragedy of the Commons," Science, 7/12/91 pp. 134-5, reports that California's Geysers are running out of steam.
I have not read the new science fiction paperback "Fallen Angels" by L. Niven, J. Pournelle and M. Flynn (Baen Books 1991) myself, but reader D.W.C. of Seattle, Wa., writes: "It is a book that tells the story of what could happen if the Greens gain complete power of the government. I think a good number of your readers would find it interesting. It is not the best book that Niven and Pournelle have done together, but it is readable nevertheless."
J.A. Haught, Science in a Nanosecond, 110 pp., sftbd., $12.95 from Prometheus Books, 700 E. Amherst St., Buffalo, NY 14215, is a simple introduction to science for complete beginners in the form of short questions, answers and drawings, and makes excel-lent reading
¾in places. Then the author slaps you in the face with "How is sex the worst threat to Planet Earth?" answered by "Out-of-control-population is overwhelming the globe, crowding out animals, turning greenery into desert," blah, blah, blah, you know the rest. And from this newsletter (better still, from Julian Simon's books) you should know why this is a pseudo-scientific fal-lacy. Recommended if you distrust all items that could have a politically fashionable background or simply a fashionable one (in-cludes Big Bang and associated subjects).
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Vol. 19, No. 1
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Volume 19 Issue/No.: Vol. 19, No. 1 Date: September 01, 1991 08:48 AM Title: Delicate and Fragile
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