A Science for the People Midwest Regional Conference was held in Urbana, Illinois on March 11, 12 and 13, 1977. Representatives from the Ann Arbor, St. Louis, and Chicago Chapters attended, in addition to members of the local chapter. An isolated individual from Fayettesville, Arkansas sent a letter, but could not...
Archive - December 2021
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decision to ban saccharin generated a predictable reaction from the food and beverage industries, but also aroused the many consumers of this product (current U.S. consumption is 5 million pounds per year). Following hasty Congressional hearings, more than 100 senators and...
During the 1960's—a time of great social unrest, questioning of basic American institutions, and a growing interest in socialism as an alternative—there appeared a spate of books on the theme that humans are only another species of ape. Konrad Lorenz, Robert Ardrey, Desmond Morris, Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox, as well...
A few months ago, a member of the Science for the People magazine editorial committee asked me to write an account of my experiences as a member of the organization for the past five years. One reason I was asked is because I am a woman and there's an effort being made to encourage more female contributors to the...
Columbia University is planning to activate a nuclear reactor on its New York City campus. It is designed for teaching and research and would not produce power for either the city or the university. Even though it is small, rated at 250 kilowatts, it can be pulsed to 2500 kilowatts. The basic facility was built some...
Brown lung, or byssinosis, is a chronic respiratory disease associated with inhaling cotton, flax, and soft hemp dusts. The initial symptoms are chest tightness, cough, sputum production and shortness of breath on the first day of every work week. Symptoms may disappear shortly after leaving work but recur each Monday...
It's a place to share your own experiences over the year in SftP, and to explore new ways of working in progressive struggles. It's a time to meet other people involved in common work all over the region, in genetic engineering issues, nuclear power resistance, alternative energy, anti-racism, China work, national...
The American Chemical Society, the professional body of the USA's corporate and academic chemists, is celebrating its centennial this year. As a public relations effort, the Society has commissioned an exhibit, which will be travelling the country informing an increasingly skeptical public of the benefits of the...
Nobody, least of all medicine's liberals, favors putting patients at risk by subjecting them to wanton experimentation, whatever the potential benefits. When left at the level of abstraction there is little controversy in this proposition, and it is easy to be on the side of the angels. But when concrete instances are...
In the current opinion column of the Nov .-Dec. 1976 issue of SftP Magazine, we presented a description of the Clamshell Alliance, which is struggling against nuclear power plant construction in Seabrook, N.H. as well as the rest of New England. Clam is an umbrella organization of 15 anti-nuke groups in New England...