Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ban on the use of saccharine in foods and beverages because it allegedly causes cancer has stirred controversy among physicians and concern among some students threatened with the loss of their favorite diet soft drinks...
...Local cancer and nutrition experts yesterday disagreed on the validity of a Canadian study, cited in support of the ban by FDA officials, that finds saccharine to be carcinogenic...
...Cancer Ward...
...fading of this mythology is the result of Americans' gradual realization that science and technology's dreamy wonders sometimes turn out to be nightmarish blunders. Detergents that make dishes gleam may kill rivers. Dyes that prettify the food may cause cancer. Pills that make sex safe may dangerously complicate health. DDT, cyclamates, thalidomide and estrogen are but a few of the mixed blessings that, all together, have taught the layman a singular lesson: the promising fruits of science and technology often come with hidden worms...
...role. Protesting science's callous use of human guinea pigs for experimentation, Dr. Richard M. Restak, a Washington neurologist, decries the fact that the prestigious National Institutes of Health refused to establish a code governing such experiments until its sponsored researchers were found guilty of injecting live cancer cells into uninformed subjects. Writing on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, Restak voiced "a creepy realization that when left to their own devices, biomedical scientists are capable of some rather nasty mischief indeed." Then he put a central, if often asked, question: "Do we need yet more...