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CORRESPONDENCE Hook, Russell, and Atomic War In reporting his conversation with me in his "A Stroll with Sidney Hook" (TAS, May 1987), Tom Bethell gives an incomplete account of some references I...
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...Contrary to the mindless blind faith of millions of superstitious cretins, an incomprehensible something called a "God" zapping the entire universe of time, matter, and space into existence, as is, complete with two magically produced humans, about six to twenty thousand years ago, for some unknown "purpose," is not a scientifically or logically defendable alternative theory...
...If the "original intent of the founders" does not prevail, Americans and our ideological progeny around the world will indeed become slavishly bound by the "conjured rights" given to the socially destructive few...
...Sidney Hook Stanford, California Darwin Disembowled and Debunked In the April issue, Mr...
...There is evidence that Stalin's break with Tito was largely motivated by fear that Tito would seize Trieste, thus provoking war with "the Anglo-American imperialists" at a time when the Soviet Union was too exhausted to engage in war...
...Lucy Rudenborg Menomonie, Wisconsin Thanks to Lehrman A quick note of appreciation for Lewis Lehrman's excellent article, "The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Life" (TAS, April 1987...
...Ray can't seem to avoid making a case against her own assumptions throughout the article...
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...The cause, effects, and possible cure for acidification are not sufficiently worked out for sensible remedial action, but are certainly far more complex than the simplistic assumptions of Green-peace...
...She also builds a strong case for the Northeast being particularly susceptible to acid rain damage, as soils there are already acidic and the threshold for damage caused by additional acidity would be lower...
...replies: My point was not that merit-based scholarships are always unjustified, but that colleges should be more forthright in informing wealthier parents of the subsidies they provide to their son's or daughter's less wealthy classmates...
...My own view was that so long as the United States had the monopoly of atomic weapons, the Kremlin would never go to war to overcome resistance to its expansion...
...They also grant athletic scholarships...
...At that time, he denounced Kennedy as a criminal "worse than Hitler" while praising Khrushchev, who had precipitated the crisis by stealthily introducing nuclear weapons into Cuba, "for his continued forbearance" (see the chapter on "Bertrand Russell and Crimes Against Humanity" in my Philosophy and Public Policy, Carbondale, 1980...
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...Denny Hartford Chairman Omaha Christian Action Council Omaha, Nebraska The Great Acid Rain Debate (cont...
...During the Berlin blockade General Clay told me that his contingency plans to run armored trains to supply West Berlin had been vetoed by the State Department...
...The scientific data base is similarly adequate for the selection of effective emission reduction strategies to reduce substantially the effects of acid deposition...
...namely, the dedication to conserve and protect above all others the inalienable right to life...
...Would Mr...
...Backing Barnes In response to Fred Barnes's reply to Jane Mansbridge's letter (Correspondence, TAS, April 1987): I will vouch for the accuracy of Mr...
...The "missing link," "inexplicable complexity of the eye," "contradiction to thermodynamics," "contradiction to laws of probability," and other bugaboos can be easily and correctly understood with effort, even by those with educational backgrounds weak or lacking in the hard sciences...
...Lee does not divulge the "overwhelming evidence for evolution...
...As for Ms...
...Finally, her conclusions clash with those of other national advisory groups who have studied the issue over a longer time period...
...Norwegian lakes meet the criteria Ray claims are missing to establish a connection between fish loss and acid deposition...
...it cannot hope to survive without violent upheavals when she herself promotes and protects the violent persecution of her own people...
...Harold W. Lewis HI Conklin, New York Chester E. Finn, Jr...
...Also she ignores the fact that both local and long-range deposition are from industrial sources and can be controlled by a national emission reduction program...
...I have always considered Russell's position both rash and unnecessary, and have argued that his several calls for preventive atomic war against the Soviet Union made him morally unfit to sit in judgment on President Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis...
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...Adding nitrogen oxides controls to the program is a reasonable next step if additional resource protection is desired...
...On the international level, the Stockholm 1982 Conference on Acidification of the Environment (June 1982) found: The acidification problem is serious and, even if deposition remains stable, deterioration of soil and water will continue and may increase unless additional control measures are implemented and existing control policies are strengthened...
...Her arguments do not make credible her contention that research is all that is needed to address the problem...
...I was discussing Russell's view that if the Kremlin refused to accept the Baruch-Lilienthal proposals to establish an international authority and monopoly of atomic energy, the West should wage a preventive atomic war against the Soviet Union...
...Despite Ray's vigorous promotion of natural sources as the culprits in acid rain, the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program's director of research, J. Laurence Kulp, states: "In the U.S., natural emissions of sulfur are small on an annual national basis relative to manmade emissions...
...The "special dear=3 for the price of 2—is also available for this model...
...In addition to overwhelming evidence for evolution, no credible scientific alternative theory exists...
...As a woman who defied societal expectations and chose full-time homemaking and motherhood as a career, I realized long ago that I would have to learn not only to live with the unmitigated scorn of the feminista junta, but also not to let it bother me...
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...Mother Teresa has sadly observed that "abortion is the destroyer of peace in our world" while many others have noted that this wholesale destruction of innocent human beings represents a suicidal assault upon justice itself...
...Kenneth Rahn's findings, ignoring his evidence that a large portion of acid deposition in the Northeast is chemically traceable to Midwestern industrial sources...
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...TWO examples are forest damage theories implicating acid rain and air pollution and evidence that anthropogenic sulfur dioxide is the largest contributor to acid rain and can cause plant damage on contact in its gaseous form...
...Ray inadvertently builds a case for sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions combining with volatile organic compounds to form toxic sulfur trioxide and ozone...
...Bethell) are in need of a source of information written for the layman, I would recommend Creation/Evolution Journal published by the American Humanist Association...
...Coulter study carefully and share with her colleagues the insight and conclusions published in the 1986 National Academy of Science volume entitled Acid Deposition: Long Term Trends...
...The National Commission on Air Quality (March 1981) set the timeframe: Congress should require a significant reduction by 1990 in the current level of sulfur dioxide emissions in the eastern United States...
...Why is that bad...
...Adequate scientific information exists to select emission-reduction strategies to reduce acid deposition efficiently...
...The principal agent altering the biosphere acidity is traceable to man-made sulfur dioxide (S02) emissions...
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...Barnes's statement that "feminists usually treat homemakers with disdain...
...And over five years ago the National Academy of Sciences recommended a level of reduction to curb the destruction: Of the options presently available only the control of emissions of sulfur and nitrogen oxides can significantly reduce the rate of deterioration of sensitive freshwater ecosystems...
...They have to do with wooing people to fill otherwise-empty seats—and sending the bill for this to the taxpayer as well as to parents of students who didn't need the wooing...
...Universities grant some scholarships on the basis of academic merit...
...The Soviet Union will never venture into a war against the West unless it is sure to win it...
...The thoughtful analyses included in this report, whose purpose is "to summarize what is known about this complex phenomenon and to correct many of the misunderstandings surrounding it," represent the best of contemporary scientific opinion...
...Historians would have a new phenomenon to study: a pre-war baby boom...
...In reality, any embarrassment I experience as a result of their intolerance is more than compensated for by the gratitude I feel for the fact that I recognized the fallacy of their peculiar brand of "liberation theology" before it was too late...
...Since Greenpeace professes to be an organization that supports the environment, it should heed the advice given by the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmospheres: "The greatest advance in alleviating acid rain certainly would come from the use of electricity sources that do not depend on fossil fuel...
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...The article by Tom Bethell in Harper's that Johnston alludes to in his review would only impress a scientific illiterate, as kindly pointed out by Stephen Jay Gould in a recent issue of Discover magazine...
...Clearly the case for acid rain controls rests on more than the one study that Ray dismisses, and your readers Put the whole world at your fingertips, with...
...I fail to see the point of Chester E. Finn, Jr.'s "Robin Hood on Campus" (TAS, March 1987...
...I am also convinced that had Eisenhower made a military gesture to come to the aid of Hungary, while Poland was still restive, the Kremlin would have retreated, as Mikoyan and others at the time urged, rather than engage in war...
...Lewis have us continue to hide the truth about post-secondary funding from those most affected by it...
...I doubt if I will buy the book to see if it contains $19.95 worth of entertainment...
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...A nation cannot stand when it ignores the very basic moral foundations of its law...
...George Sim Johnston alleges that Frederick Crews's book Skeptical Engagements documents the "disembowelment" and debunking of the systems of Marx, Freud, and Darwin...
...They are, after all, educational institutions, not income redistributors...
...It was Khrushchev, the domestic reformer, to whom Gorbachev is being compared, who drowned the Hungarian Revolution in blood, threatened Red Chinawith nuclear weapons, took the measure of the fearful West, but backed off when the chips were down...
...Her accumulation of evidence for volcanoes being a source of sulfur dioxide pollution does not eliminate industry sulfur dioxide sources as significant contributors...
...Moreover, many of the "no-need" scholarships, discounts, and rebates have precious little to do with academic merit...
...This might have some interesting consequences, though probably not the ones that ERA's sponsors had in mind...
...In the last column of her article it is clear that her real motivation for taking her position is economic and political, not scientific, and has little to do with her recently acquired credentials as member of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere...
...What Crews writes about Marxism, however, could be said about the current embarrassed state of Darwinian theory...
...no more glaring human crisis presents itself before the arena of social concern...
...For scientists today, imagining modern science (including astronomyand physics) without recourse to the evolutionary paradigm is like imagining a person walking around without a skeleton...
...In other parts of the article she ignores the full range of evidence available to support widely accepted theories...
...Stalin was much more cautious than Khrushchev, and made no effort to disrupt the airlift, well aware that it would have precipitated war...
...Actually, it could be just the thing to boost our nation's sagging birthrate back up to the level needed to replace our aging, dying population...
...Wealthy parents who sent their relatively untalented offspring to prestigious private universities without the benefit of financial aid end up paying a small fortune in tuition and fees...
...Mansbridge's insistence that "ERA would not have required sending women draftees into combat," it's worth noting that she did not deny that ERA would have required the draft to apply to both sexes equally...
...No one familiar with the phenomenon would claim that clean rain is not already more acidic than the neutral "pure water" pH value of 7, something she belabors pointlessly for many paragraphs...
...however, he did not read it very carefully...
...CORRESPONDENCE Hook, Russell, and Atomic War In reporting his conversation with me in his "A Stroll with Sidney Hook" (TAS, May 1987), Tom Bethell gives an incomplete account of some references I made to Bertrand Russell...
...Nevertheless, Mr...
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...The Ad Hoc Committee on Acid Rain Science and Policy (October 1985) also finds: Substantial consensus exists on sources of acid deposition, on certain types of damage caused by the deposition, and on likely effects of reducing the emissions responsible for the acidity...
...James G. Lee Jackson, Mississippi George Sim Johnston replies: I am glad that Mr...
...For the detailed argument I take the liberty of referring readers to the chapter "In Defense of the Cold War: Neither Red nor Dead" in my Marxism and Beyond (Totowa, 1983...
...This also is regrettable, but it does not strike me as being among the greatest tragedies of our educational system...
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...Hydroelectric energy and nuclear energy are completely clean in the sense that neither emits sulfur oxide or nitrogen oxides...
...When Ray suggests that sulfur dioxide is not a primary cause of air pollution and acid rain damage, she runs counter to the opinion of most scientists and even to some of the implications of her own writing...
...Lehrrnan's article, though emphasizing the historical record, correctly reveals the "eventual import" is indeed the destruction of not only the lives of countless others, but quite possibly, of the very concepts of peace and justice as Americans have always understood them...
...Darwinian evolutionary theory, like atomic "theory," Einstein's "theory" of Relativity, the germ "theory" of disease, and the Big Bang "theory," is the accepted scientific interpretation of verifiable facts in a particular domain of science...
...since /967erki suer 131 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 48 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1987 should be advised of the rest of the story...
...Lehrman's argument was logical, historically accurate, and profoundly perceptive of the eventual import of the ongoing "slaughter of the innocents" which, of course, is abortion-ondemand...
...Even the Reagan-Mulroney Report on Acid Rain (March 1986) states: There is consensus in the international scientific community that the scientific data base is adequate to assess the immediate as well as the long-term implications of continuing, high-volume emissions of acid-causing pollutants and resulting acidification of sensitive ecosystems...
...I am writing in regard to the misleading character of the article, "The Great Acid Rain Debate" by Dixy Lee Ray, which appeared in the January 1987 issue of The American Spectator...
...She presents only part of Dr...
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...which is regrettable because the business of universities should be academics, not football...
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...its adherents have immured themselves behind lavishly baroque mental constructs in the face of mounting empirical evidence that it is not true...
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...In the northeastern United States only a few percent of the deposited sulfur is thought to arise from natural sources" (information sent to Representative John Dingell, July 24, 1986...
...Lee should not have mentioned Einstein to bolster his argument, because Einstein was one of those "superstitious cretins" who believe in God...
...One feels somewhat callous to speak of "eventual import" when the current reality is 20,000,000 dismembered children-in-the-womb since Roe (continued on page 47) THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1987 9 CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 9) v. Wade's legalization of abortion in 1973...
...Johnston (or Mr...
...My heartfelt thanks for printing such an eloquent case for the innocent, defenseless victims of the "spurious right" of privacy who yet have so few advocates in our culture...
...In the most seriously affected areas (average precipitation of pH of 4.1 to 4.2), this would mean a reduction of 50% in deposited hydrogen ions...
...In June of 1984 the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment noted that: . . . sulfur dioxide is the logical focus for a program to control acid deposition in the Eastern United States...
...As for trying to prove one's beliefs by pulling quotations out of context from various publications, many of them superseded by more recent research, I recommend that Ms...
...For example, if ERA were ratified (or if the Supreme Court were to reverse its earlier decision affirming the constitutionality of the male-only draft) and if a national emergency necessitated reinstatement of the draft, our nation would experience, almost overnight, a pregnancy epidemic of unprecedented proportions among young women of draft age—pregnancy being the surest and most readily available means of rendering oneself draft-proof...
...Lee was not using a controlled substance when he read my review...
...No greater issue presents itself before American politics...
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...This report was written by more than 58 nationally known and credible scientists representing the Committee on Monitoring and Assessment of Trends in Acid Deposition, the Environmental Studies Board, the Commission of Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources, and the National Research Council...
...Karen L. Coulter, Greenpeace Acid Rain Campaign Coordinator Seattle, Washington Dixy Lee Ray replies: In response to the Greenpeace letter calling attention to the "misleading character" of my acid rain article, I can only ask: since when is it "misleading" to review what is now known about acid rain, recognize the limits of our knowledge, and call for better understanding based on reliable and sufficient data...
...Darwin's disciples have been reduced to defending their theory by asserting, in Mr...
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...Lehrman shows that as horrendous as the present situation is (4,500 abortions every day in the United States—nearly one of every three pregnancies so "terminated"), the terrors ushered in by the blatant disregard for the obvious intent of the Constitution's authors must only become worse...
...But we are not obliged to believe in a theory in the teeth of contrary evidence simply because there is no other plausible "scientific" explanation...
...Since any thinking and well-read person is aware that Marx and Freud produced little more than mindless drivel and that Darwinian evolutionary theory is the foundation of modern science, Crews's book would seem to be an unholy mixture of the supererogatory and the silly...
...So long as our defenses make their victory uncertain, we will have peace...
...Lehrman writes, "to say that the future of the world now depends upon the future of American conservatism...
...The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (July 1984) agrees: Acid deposition has altered the chemistry and biology of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems of eastern North America...
...Thus she admits what she ignores elsewhere in the article: that other suspected air pollution causes of forest and other damage originate with the same industrial sources as acid rain and can be controlled through the same emission regulations...
...but I suggest that he read Norman Macbeth's Darwin Retried in which the leading Darwinists—Huxley, Simpson, Mayr, et al.—are made to look exceedingly foolish...
...Frederick Crews does not discuss Darwin in his book, and I wrote nothing to imply that he does...
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...Lee's words, that "no creditable scientific alternative theory exists...
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...The ecological problems that clearly result from man-made emissions are sufficiently well substantiated that additional reductions are required to prevent even more consequential environmental effects...
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...Only an extreme advocacy environmentalist organization like Greenpeace could object to knowing what we're doing before squandering billions of taxpayer dollars on ill-advised and hasty action...
...The National Academy of Sciences (March 1986) is more specific: Analysis of the Adirondack data indicates that no other acidifying process except acid deposition has been identified to explain the rapid declines in lake water pH during the past 20 to 40 years...
Vol. 20 • June 1987 • No. 6
