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Chester Douglass, chair of the dental school’s Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology Department, reported in a recent study that was based on research funded with government money that there is no correlation between flouride and bone cancer in boys, ignoring findings by one of his doctoral students that such a correlation did in fact exist...
...Douglass is also the editor-in-chief of the Colgate Oral Care Report, a professional newsletter for dentists subsidized by Colgate Palmolive, the company that makes Colgate toothpaste—which contains fluoride...
While seventeenth-century records attest to Iacoomes’ academic prowess—he impressed then-Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony John Winthrop in a 1663 Latin oral examination—he was shipwrecked off the coast of Nantucket as he returned to Cambridge from Martha’s Vineyard. He died sometime in the summer of 1665—before Commencement, which in the seventeenth century took place at the end of the summer...
...about Lincoln in a complex and honest way paid a heavy price. After Lincoln died, Herndon solicited memories from men and women who had known him, identifying and tracking down crucial sources, then hounding them until they gave a statement or an interview. We call that kind of material oral history, but in the late 19th century it was just as likely to be called gossip--or, worse, scurrilous trash. Herndon thought that history should tell the full truth about a man and that Lincoln's character could only be magnified by a full portrait of it. He dug hard...
...long encrusted in mythology? Fortunately, we've never been in a better position to see him. Along with new interest in the private lives of public figures, new trends in scholarship allow us a fresh chance to see Lincoln as he lived, thought and acted. Following the boom in oral history in the 1960s, today's Lincoln scholars are closely studying the massive body of recollections from people who knew him well, including intimate portraits that had long been neglected or obscured. In the past decade, more than a dozen volumes of essential primary evidence on Lincoln have been published...