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From a young reporter this is to be expected. But two decades later, Null, 54 is still warning of a variety of medical bogeymen out to gull a trusting public. Fluoridation of water, for example, was pressed on the U.S. by "public relations men and their industrial paymasters," he writes in Get Healthy Now! Even his recent problem at PBS, he implies, may have been an attempt to silence him. "The guardians of the gates of orthodoxy at PBS," he says darkly, "you don't know who their friends...
...accusations against liberals go, anti-religious fever is among many conservatives' favorite standbys. According to these conservatives, religion in the United States suffers at the hands of liberal elites who run an obsessively secular society. For some reason, the specific names of the anti-religious, liberal bogeymen of the political world never get mentioned. Perhaps the fact that there are so many of them obviates the need to identify specific individuals. But we may rest assured, they tell us, that there exists a wide variety of such specters...
TORONTO: An Ontario labor board ruled that Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, must work with organized labor for the first time in its 35-year history. In pursuing unions as corporate bogeymen, Wal-Mart at last overstepped its reach. Even though a vote last May on unionization at the company's Windsor, Ontario store failed 151-43, the result was deemed "meaningless" by the board since company officials had implied that they would close the branch if the vote passed. Ed Gould, a spokesman for Wal-Mart Canada, says that Wal-Mart stands firm in its belief that...
Take health care. The Clintons did not just offer their plan as a needed reform of an old and inefficient system. They had to portray the existing system as the workings of "price gouging, cost shifting" and "profiteering" bogeymen -- the greedy insurers, drug makers and doctors from whose malevolent grasp the Clintons and their bureaucrats would free...
...those looking for a dark side to the nameless generation, poor Beavis and Butthead are the perfect bogeymen. They represent our youthful contingent--more irreverent and more disturbing than their adult for-bears. These little nihilists are Generation X with an attitude, flaunting every imaginable form of repulsive behavior, and then some. They insult their elders. They torture small animals. They have poor personal hygiene. They think everything "sucks." The fact that we love it must be proof of our depravity...