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“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington

Robespierre: The Fool as Revolutionary by Otto Scott
This biography of Robespierre, The Incorruptible, reads like a spellbinding novel, only that this book recounts more than the life of Robespierre. It graphically describes

Book Review: The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor
The Nazi War on Cancer by Robert N. Proctor is a deeply disturbing book for it describes in a good light what the author calls

Guns and Phony Health Care Costs
In a new book, Gun Violence: The Real Costs (Oxford University Press, 2000), to be released next month, economists Philip J. Cook of Duke University

Physician Unions Not the Answer to Managed Care
As we reach Labor Day 2000, physicians and the public should wonder what has happened in the many months that have transpired since the AMA

Cuban Psychiatry — The Perversion of Medicine
The Politics of Psychiatry in Revolutionary Cuba by Charles J. Brown and Armando M. Lago,(1) the subject of this issue’s Editor’s Corner, only came to

TV Violence Increases Homicides
Recently, the media, including medical journalists in organized medicine (i.e., American Medical Association and affiliates) have focused their attention on the associations of violence in