APS Forum on Physics and Society - October 1998
Volume 27, Number 4 Oct 1998
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Letters
More on Lay Science Books
: Varadaraja V. Raman
Informing the Public or Disparaging Them
: Bertram Wolfe
Understanding of Radiation Hazards: Need for New Radiation Standards?
: Arthur Smith
Articles
Szilard's Roots and His Interdisciplinarity
: George Marx
Voodoo Science: Perpetuum Mobile
: Robert Park
Magnet Therapy
: A.B. Liboff
A Public Debate on Science, Pseudoscience and Spiritualism
from the Perspectives of a Physicist, a Sociologist and a Biologist: Alan Scott, Bob Salt, Ken Parejko
News
Leo Szilard Lectureship is Funded
Visa Denials for Indian and Pakistani Scientists
Richardson Confirmed at DOE, Lane at OSTP
Appropriations Bills; the R&D Doubling Bill
Does the National Ignition Facility Violate the CTBT?
American Geophysical Union Statements
Doomsday Clock Advances 5 Minutes
Watch Out for NSF Grant Titles!
Physicist Wins Easily in New Jersey Primary
Truman Comments on Science Funding
Geroge Brown Speaks at AAAS Colloquium
President Clinton Addresses MIT
Reviews
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown
: Stephen Jay Gould, reviewed by D. Elizabeth Pugel
Articles from
Science
on Global Warming
: John Michael Williams
sher@physics.wm.edu