RE: History of X-Rays

[dckosloff@aep.com]

When they go to the library they will find 5 or 6 lame-brained anti-nuke
diatribes about the horrors of radiation and
maybe one book with "both sides" of the issues.  But nothing like they
would find in a few issues of the HP newsletter, for example.  Been there,
done that all over the country.   Libraries have generally joined the
entertainment age and are poor sources for balanced accounts on
controversial issues even if  you already know something about the subject.
What naive students need is some direction to the richness and variety of
the field.  They WILL get the garbage from the library, magazines and
newspapers.  Perhapsthey will even get shown, as my daughter did,  an
anti-nuclear video in their high school class and have it extolled as the
definative source of wisdom on the subject.  Fortunately, she is
anti-authoritarian enough to relish the opportunity to attack the teacher
with actual knowledge.

Don Kosloff
dkosloff@ncweb.com


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