Word: cancerously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wolfe's sting has been felt mostly by Washington bureaucrats. For the past seven years, the 41-year-old doctor has been buzzing around federal agencies, urging them to take action on health issues. These range from banning cancer-causing chemicals from food supplies and the workplace to removing hazardous drugs from the market and warning the public about the dangers of unnecessary surgery, excessive X rays and liquid protein diets...
...Wolfe turned his attention to public-health hazards that he felt were not being dealt with promptly or vigorously enough by federal agencies. His alarms, sometimes strident but usually accompanied by sound documentation, have resulted in a remarkable string of Government actions affecting the use of suspected or proven cancer-causing substances. Among them...
...Consumer Product Safety Commission's 1974 ban on the use as a propellant of vinyl chloride, shown to be the cause of a rare form of liver cancer, from a host of aerosol products...
Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, and his Harvard research team are working on the insulin problem. Gilbert has been using the MIT P-3 lab for the past year pending completion of the Harvard lab. This past July his group developed a bacterial strain which synthesized rat proinsulin, a modified form of insulin...
However, with the expected publication of new, more relaxed guidelines, no one seems to know whether the Cambridge ordinance applies to the stricter 1976 rules or to the looser 1978 strictures. Nor do scientists agree on the justification for the new guidelines. While Walter Gilbert '53. American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, hails the new guidelines as considerably more sensible than in the past, dissident scientists like Jonathan King, professor of microbiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says the new guidelines are based not on new scientific evidence but on scientists' lobbying against restrictive guidelines...