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Freshman Jamie Irving looms as an unproven but intiguing prospect: He is ambidexterous...
Judging from the reactions on the part of newspaper editors and readers, the controversy is definitely heated. The Boston Globe has been prefacing the cartoon with an editor's note claiming that "News organizations also looked into the allegations and found them to be unproven ... [however] it nonetheless contains no information about the investigation that could be determined to be factually inaccurate." About 20 or 25 papers stopped running the strip for the duration of the Quayle sequence and three canceled the strip permanently...
...have a reasonable complaint, even in the eyes of this die-hard Doonesbury fan. The fact that no evidence exists to disprove what Trudeau is saying does not necessarily justify his viewpoint. The drug charges to which he refers have been investigated by numerous sources and found to be unproven...
Someone who has risen as high as Trudeau has in the cartooning industry should not stoop (even temporarily) to publishing unproven charges. There are enough proven problems with society in general (and Dan Quayle specifically) to keep him busy for a long, long time...
William Jarvis, public-health professor at Loma Linda University in Southern California, condemns virtually all alternative medicine. The founder of the National Council Against Health Fraud, he rejects macrobiotics as "not only unproven but a bizarre and dangerous diet for sick people." Aromatherapy is "crazy," he says. "If you are going to claim that something is safe and effective for human disease, you need to have proof...