Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Asbury's conclusions are disputed by Sociologist John H. Burma of Grinnell College, who thinks the "authorities" exaggerate. In the American Journal of Sociology he argues that the number of Negroes passing as whites is much smaller...
...made pestilence still walks in the darkness of military secrecy. But in the current Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, George W. Merck, president of Merck & Co., tells a little bit about U.S. experiments for possible biological warfare...
...School of Tropical Medicine, thinks that the efficacy of folic acid also proves decisively that sprue (symptoms: diarrhea, mouth sores, lassitude) is a result of poor diet rather than a contagious disease, as some doctors have insisted. Folic acid, Spies announced earlier this year in the A.M.A. Journal, is also a remedy for all but a few rare kinds of anemia, causing red blood cells to pour into the blood in striking numbers...
Such antics were dismissed this week by the editor of the American, Journal of Public Health, Professor C.E.A. Winslow of Yale, as no more helpful than beating tom-toms-"reminiscent of the days of yellow fever and the shotgun quarantine of a century ago, when people were driven by blind fear, ignorance and superstition." Added Winslow: "There is no reason to believe that improved methods of sewage treatment and disposal, more rigid standards for the purification of water supplies, or the dusting of DDT over a city . . . will have any measurable effect on the incidence of infantile paralysis...
...Ertron, a vitamin preparation touted as "Hope for the Victims of Arthritis," but deflated by the Journal as "unimpressive...