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...process, he has become a well-respected figure in the Washington press corps, spent 11 years as a commentator on PBS's public affairs program "Washington Week in Review" and has written several books...
...does not seem motivated by profit. He leads a health-support group in Manhattan and charges nothing for enrollment, and despite fierce bidding for his manuscripts, he often chooses small publishers, and then may defer royalties to help make the project affordable. Null, says Bob Marty, producer of the PBS shows, is "a pretty generous...
...decades later, Null, 54 is still warning of a variety of medical bogeymen out to gull a trusting public. Fluoridation of water, for example, was pressed on the U.S. by "public relations men and their industrial paymasters," he writes in Get Healthy Now! Even his recent problem at PBS, he implies, may have been an attempt to silence him. "The guardians of the gates of orthodoxy at PBS," he says darkly, "you don't know who their friends...
...objections, insisting he can back up his claims. A lot of his corroboration, however, is in the form of testimonials from followers--anecdotal evidence that carries almost no scientific weight. Throughout his writing, he does cite doctors and researchers, giving the material greater authority. On one of Null's pbs videos, he even appears with a panel of doctors who provide reassurance that at least some of his promises of good health are backed up by good science...
Last week the PBS talk show To the Contrary broadcast results of a new study it had commissioned from a New York University economist: he claims that women now control a majority--51.3%--of U.S. household wealth. Other economists challenge the report's methodology, especially its apportioning of wealth evenly between husbands and wives. Yet even the critics believe women's influence over wealth is growing, if only because wives outlive their husbands by an average of seven years and usually inherit most of their assets...