Gee! Now on the other hand,  how would you take it if someone were
to insult you?   :-(

http://cspinet.org/integrity/nonprofits/the_advancement_of_sound_science_coaliti
on_defunct_.html

THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOUND SCIENCE COALITION [defunct]

O'Dywer's PR Services reports that TASSC is "leading the charge
against what it views as the unholy alliance between environmentalists
and the media" (Feb. 1996).

The office of Stephen Milloy (executive director of TASSC) is in the
headquarters of APCO Associates, a Washington, D.C., PR firm that
specializes in creating coalitions like TASSC. (Village Voice, April
29, 1997, p. 39)

According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG) this "sound
science" coalition is supported by hundreds of corporations,
including 3M, Amoco, Chevron, Dow Chemical, Exxon, General Motors,
Occidental Petroleum, Philip Morris, Procter & Gamble and W.R. Grace.
Its objective is to act as a speakers bureau to deliver the corporate
message that environmental public policy is not currently based on
"sound science," and to counter excessive regulations that are
based on what it considers "junk" science.

TASSC, according to EWG, was created in 1993 to promote "sound
science" in policy decision making. TASSC's extensive advisory
board contains well known "science skeptics" S. Fred Singer, Bruce
Ames, Dr. Patrick Michaels, Michael Sanera, and Hugh Ellsaesser.

Steven Milloy, executive director of TASSC, is a self styled "junk
science" critic who previously launched the Junk Science Page through
the Environmental Policy Analysis Network (EPAN), a group he started in
1996. Milloy is also a lobbyist for the EOP Group, a DC-based lobbying
firm that represents the American Crop Protection Association, the
Chlorine Chemistry Council, Edison Electric Institute, among others.
Under Milloy's personal listing of groups he represents through the
EOP Group in 1996 were Fort Howard Corp., the International Food
Additives Association, and Monsanto. According to the most recent
edition of Washington Representatives, Milloy's client list has grown
to include the National Mining Association, among others.
(http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/clear/view/CV_Vol4_No16.html; accessed
6/17/03)

"Support comes from companies like Procter & Gamble, Exxon, Dow
Chemical, and Philip Morris."
[http://www.villagevoice.com/ink/goetz.html] (4/23/97)

Carl Pfeiffer.

When I knew him, he was the founder and chief poobah of the Brain Bio
Center, in Princeton (actually Skillman), NJ, where he'd set up an
incredible laboratory of very state-of-the-art equipment, with which he
made major contributions to biochemistry, and wrote _Mental and
Elemental Nutrients_, _Zinc and Other Trace Elements_, and many, more
specialized, books and articles on the brain and how various
environmental conditions (including, but not limited to, diet) affected
it and caused or cured problems, such as the dozen-or-more kinds of
headaches, the half-dozen biochemical profiles of schizophrenia,
previously unknown effects of trace elements and their interactions,
unknown blood constituents, and so on.

He was often regarded as connected with the "orthomolecular" school,
though at its cutting edge: doing his own thing, rather than following
the others.  He admired their early leaders.

He had two doctorates and had been the chief research pharmacologist of
the U.S. Navy for twenty or thirty years.  His wife, too, had a
doctorate (in pharmacology, I think), and worked together with him.

He did me a special favor.  Knowing I wanted the full battery of tests
his lab could run (mass spectroscopy, electrophoresis, etc.: things now
much less exotic than they were then) on my hair, blood, feces, urine;
but that I was strapped for cash, he invited me to come over on a quiet
weekend to help him paint a wall of the building!  While we worked, we
discussed the "Krebs cycle" and "Embden-Meyerhoff pathway", and he told
me (to my surprise) that though many people studied them, few mastered
them, yet they were the "keys to everything" (whatever that meant!).
I'm still learning, bit by bit (30 years later), what he had in mind.
In fact, it was only recently that I discovered there was more (much
more!) to metabolism.

But I've never found anything he was wrong about, except _maybe_ (I
emphasize maybe) what the ideal dietary sodium/potassium ratio ought to
be.  He was very pro-potassium, perhaps too much.  On the other hand, it
might just have been me.  I eliminated as much sodium as I could from my
diet, including not only added salt and meats, but even onions, celery,
etc.  Then one hot day in New Orleans, I took a bit of salt on a hunch
and discovered I felt much better within seconds.  Hyponatremia!  And I
thought it couldn't happen....

TC, You need to use reading glasses.  You can buy them at Wal-Mart for
a couple of bucks.  Do you need a loan?

Just thought that you might want to try reading what I actually wrote
for a change.