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...correct term for what used to be called quackery. Any alternative therapy that can be proved valid will swiftly be incorporated into mainstream medicine. Any "medicine" that is based on myth, irrationality and deception will eventually be rejected. "Once the public finds out what homeopathy is," predicts Dr. John Renner, head of the National Council for Reliable Health Information, "once they find out that chlorophyll is necessary for plant life but not human life, they're going to turn on these alternative groups...
...what will mankind do with this extended life-span? Will we use these extra years of life to wage war against both the environment and one another? Or will we use the time to teach, grow, respect the earth and live in peace with our neighbors? CHRISTOPHER J. RENNER Phoenix, Arizona...
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...Christmas tree anywhere, is upset that the BLM will now allow him to cut his tree only from certain areas? Oh, how he suffers at the tyrannical hands of the Federal Government! As I recall, most Americans have to go out and pay for their Christmas trees. COOPER S. RENNER, El Paso, Texas Via E-mail...
Environmental groups are calling for fact-finding missions and legal action to discourage future acts of ecowarfare. Their worst nightmare is that the idea of holding nature hostage will spread to other conflicts. "I don't think we can tolerate this happening again," says Michael Renner, senior researcher at the Worldwatch Institute. "The environment is already under attack from our activities in peacetime." What can be done to prevent recurrences? One possibility: an international agreement that, like a Geneva Convention, would make ecoterrorism a war crime as punishable by law as the murder of hostages or the torture of POWs...