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...were threatened by a bacterial onslaught of molds and fungi. "If we had not found a solution," says Baldini, "those frescoes would have been devoured by micro-organisms." He and his colleagues ran through dozens of mold-killing antibiotics to test their effect on paint. Finally one was left: Squibb's Nystatin, a stomach medicine, which did not harm the pigments. But it came in the form of pills, which could not be fed to a wall. At last the University of Florence's chemistry department found a way to render powdered Nystatin soluble, and it was sprayed...
Thomas was appointed dean last July 1. The briefness of his tenure raised speculation that his resignation was related to the disclosure in congressional hearings last October that Thomas and Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Harvard Medical School, were both paid consultants to the Squibb Corporation, a major pharmaceutical manufacturer...
...There is no relation whatsoever between the Squibb thing and my resignation," Thomas, reached at his home in Connecticut, said yesterday...
Furthermore, you unquestioningly accepted the negative opinion on Mysteclin-F reportedly rendered by a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel. Just what makes you think that these unidentified panelists are absolutely right and Squibb scientists and the outside experts advising us are absolutely wrong? Even after your short exposure to this question, you should have learned that these are highly complex matters on which competent scientists can legitimately differ. In this case, where there is no question as to the safety of the product or as to its efficacy (it cures the people it purports to cure...
What is most disturbing to me about your editorial is that it seems to be based on the assumption that in a controversy between the Government and a group of its citizens (if you grant that Squibb consists for this purpose of its citizens employees and shareholders) the Government is bound to be right and the citizens are bound to be wrong. This attitude has been widely accepted in many societies throughout a great deal of man's history. It is, however, disconcerting to find it expressed in 1972 on the editorial page of The Crimson. Richard M. Furlaud President...