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Still, even the scientists involved in the latest tests continue to urge caution. In a New England Journal editorial, Dr. Robert Hoover, who reported the National Cancer Institute results, notes that the tests showed only that saccharin had not caused any of the current bladder tumors in patients. Because the sweetener has been in widespread use only since the 1960s, it could have still undiscovered long-range carcinogenic effects on the bladder and other organs. Thus, Hoover warns, "any use by nondiabetic children or pregnant women, heavy use by young women of child-bearing age and excessive use by anyone...
...seek to legitimize themselves by the d'etat, c 'est moi "strategy that makes their own interests inseparable from the well-being of the country itself; disloyalty to one becomes disloyalty to the other. Thus the Nixon Administration had it that its critics were unpatriotic. J. Edgar Hoover used the FBI to try to destroy the lives of "unpatriotic" Americans like Martin Luther King...
...Robert Hoover, an epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute, yesterday advised cautious use of saccharin since it may be at least "weakly carcinogenic," and has shown no "measurable medical benefits...
...purchase of sugar substitutes and diet drinks may be a harmless voluntary choice by people who then "feel better about their self-image," Hoover said. He emphasized, however, the necessity of "informed decisions," and questioned the use of artificial sweeteners as a food additive...
...moved away from the routine investigations of bank robbery and car theft that were popular under J. Edgar Hoover, it has plunged into the far more complex world of organized and white-collar crime and corrupt politicians. Evidence is much harder to obtain, cases that will stand up in court are much harder to build. So the agency has increasingly resorted to stings to produce the strongest possible proof of a crime. But police infiltration of the criminal world has always been a touchy area. Undercover agents often necessarily become parties to the commission of crime; so do paid informants...