Re: Wilhelm Reich

[sdsu!csuna!abcscagz@ucsd.edu (stepanek/cs assoc)]

Reich's accumulators were labelled as a fraud by the FDA because Reich had
earlier come down on the FDA's psycho-drug policy.  (I.e. Reich disagreed
with the FDA's policy that drugs can [and perhaps should] be a normal part
of psychiatric treatment.)
   Reich did not answer the FDA's summons in court because his lawyer TOLD
him that he didn't have to go to court.  ("Naah, just write 'em a letter.")
This same lawyer went on to be prosecuting attorney in Reich's later criminal
indictment.  If Reich had had a GOOD lawyer, he could have gotten the whole
original case thrown out of court as being unconstitutional.  ("The government
can't regulate scientific discoveries, et cetera et cetera")
   Meanwhile, this whole topic has gotten so far away from the original
posting about a song with "Cloudbuster" lyrics that it no longer belongs in
this newsgroup.

P.S.:  Thank goodness most people think of the cloudbuster as a bunch of
       hoo-ha.  Otherwise some real harm could be done to global weather.

-- 
Jeff Boeing:  ...!csun.edu!csuna!abcscagz    (formerly tracer@stb.UUCP)
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