Word: hominem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flat statements that floridation is no longer a controversial subject (when Cambridge has just thrown it out after a two year trial), that fluoride is a nutrient (cf. Maurer and Day: "The Non-essentiality of Fluorine as a Nutrient") and the reberated argumentum hominem against opponents of this police-state medicine are for the dispassionate to weigh...
...knowledge. On the I believe the country will be best if anyone feels free to criticize question existing policies and posals--on their merits--and to gest others. But let us keep the cussion on the merits, and not in the easier and much less pro practice of ad hominem attacks as some do, on the motives, here on the "thoughtlessness" or sponsibility" of individuals. ROGER FISHER, Professor...
...rabble-rouser egged them on, their legions grew to 4,000 in two riotous evenings (against a force of 32 Yard cops and proctors, augmented during the second demonstration by 25 tear-gas-tossing Cambridge police). Marching on Harvard Square and making the spring night hideous with an ad hominem battle cry-"Latin, Si; Pusey, No!" -the undergraduates got nowhere with a recalcitrant president, who (said the Crimson) would forevermore be "derided as the man who changed alma mater to foster mother...