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...surprisingly, the new books are controversial. Jacob Neusner, professor of religious studies at the University of South Florida, calls the Jesus Seminar "either the greatest scholarly hoax since the Piltdown Man or the utter bankruptcy of New Testament studies -- I hope the former." Other scholars question the use of the Thomas and the hypothetical Q. The effect is like looking through the wrong end of a telescope at a vanishing Jesus. In his forthcoming The Gospel of Jesus (Westminster), William R. Farmer, professor emeritus of the New Testament at Southern Methodist University, decries the latest Q theory because it leads...
...school year -- were placed by the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, which is headed by Bradley R. Smith, 63, a Visalia, California, pamphleteer. Smith, who spends most of his waking hours in Holocaust denial, wants open debate, he says, because the possibility that the Holocaust was a hoax goes unreported. Much of the material on which Smith bases his claims comes from the pseudointellectual journal of the Institute for Historical Review, a Holocaust-denial group in Costa Mesa, California, and the writings of Mark Weber, a former member of the neo-Nazi National Youth Alliance. Says Smith...
...testing and contact tracing amount to "a cruel hoax," claims a gay representative from the West Coast. "There are not enough beds to take care of known AIDS patients. Why identify more?" Actually, testing is cruel only in a world where captains of sinking ships do not warn passengers because the captains cannot get off. We must marshal the moral courage to tell those infected with HIV: It is truly tragic that currently we have no way to save your life, but surely you recognize your duty to try to help save the lives of others...
...significant scientific agreement." Under food-labeling laws passed by Congress three years ago and scheduled to go into effect Dec. 5, products that fail to meet this test will have to be relabeled. The products themselves, however, will not be banned. "The great vitamin ban of 1993 is a hoax," says Bruce Silverglade of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, one of several independent groups that support the FDA. "We need the government to sort fact from fiction...
SEPT. 24: I'm starting to get real homesick. The best news is those 250 ((sic)) people turned out to be a hoax...