The REALL News - January 1999

<body> <div id="main-title"><img src="/images/main-title.gif" width="329" height="81" alt=""></div> <div id="global-navbar"> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/about/">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="/newsletter/">Newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="/letters/">Letters</a></li> <li><a href="/calendar.html">Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/links.html">Links</a></li> <li><a href="/search.html">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/email.html">E-Mail</a></li> </ul> </div>  <p align="center"><font size="2"><i>(<a href="index.html">Toggle Frames</a>)</i></font></p> <h1 align="center"><img src="/images/anthony/std_news.gif" alt="*" align="middle" WIDTH="64" HEIGHT="54">The REALL News<img src="/images/anthony/std_news.gif" alt="*" align="middle" WIDTH="64" HEIGHT="54"></h1> <p align="center"><i>"It's a very dangerous thing to believe in nonsense." -- James Randi</i></p> <hr> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%"><b>Volume 7 Issue 1</b></td> <td align="right" width="50%"><b>January 1999</b></td> </tr> </table> <hr> <h2 align="center">In This Issue</h2> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" width="80%"> <tr> <th align="left">Features</th> <th align="left">Departments</th> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul> <li><a href="kreider-speaks-part-1.html">Dr. Kreider Speaks Out -- Part 1: Introduction</a>,<br> by Randy Alley</li> <li><a href="extraterrestrial-hypothesis.html">Is the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis Falsifiable?</a>,<br> by Martin Kottmeyer</li> <li><a href="reallity-check.html">REALLity Check</a>,<br> by David Bloomberg</li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top" width="50%"><ul> <li><a href="chairman.html">From the Chairman</a><br> David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="editor.html">From the Editor</a><br> Bob Ladendorf</li> <li><a href="masthead.html">Masthead</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <p> </p> <div align="center"><center> <table border="1" width="80%"> <tr> <td width="100%"><h2 align="center">Dr. Kreider Speaks Out<br> Part 1: Introduction</h2> <p align="center"><b>by Randy Alley</b></p> <p><img src="speaker.gif" alt="*" align="right" hspace="2" WIDTH="164" HEIGHT="203">During the May 1829 semiannual meeting of the Ohio State Medical Society, charges of quackery were brought forth against Dr. John M. Shang. Dr. Shang belonged to a group called the "Steam Confederation" who promoted the Thomsonian plan over "natural means of treatment."<sup>1 </sup>As a result of the proceedings, Dr. Shang was removed from membership in the Society and forbidden to associate himself with it. The charges against Dr. Shang were signed by Dr. Michael Zimmerman Kreider. Who was Dr. Kreider?<a href="kreider-speaks-part-1.html"><img alt="More" border="0" hspace="2" src="/images/anthony/hpoint_right.gif" WIDTH="33" HEIGHT="14">More</a></td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <p>   </body>