APS Forum on Physics and Society - October 1998

Volume 27, Number 4 Oct 1998

• Letters
  1. More on Lay Science Books: Varadaraja V. Raman
  2. Informing the Public or Disparaging Them: Bertram Wolfe
  3. Understanding of Radiation Hazards: Need for New Radiation Standards?: Arthur Smith
• Articles
  
  1. Szilard's Roots and His Interdisciplinarity: George Marx
  2. Voodoo Science: Perpetuum Mobile: Robert Park
  3. Magnet Therapy: A.B. Liboff
  4. A Public Debate on Science, Pseudoscience and Spiritualism from the Perspectives of a Physicist, a Sociologist and a Biologist: Alan Scott, Bob Salt, Ken Parejko
• News
  
  1. Leo Szilard Lectureship is Funded
  2. Visa Denials for Indian and Pakistani Scientists
  3. Richardson Confirmed at DOE, Lane at OSTP
  4. Appropriations Bills; the R&D Doubling Bill
  5. Does the National Ignition Facility Violate the CTBT?
  6. American Geophysical Union Statements
  7. Doomsday Clock Advances 5 Minutes
  8. Watch Out for NSF Grant Titles!
  9. Physicist Wins Easily in New Jersey Primary
  10. Truman Comments on Science Funding
  11. Geroge Brown Speaks at AAAS Colloquium
  12. President Clinton Addresses MIT
• Reviews
  1. Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown: Stephen Jay Gould, reviewed by D. Elizabeth Pugel
  2. Articles from Science on Global Warming: John Michael Williams