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- From: stevea@geom.umn.edu
- Message-Id: <9409091412.AA18638@euclid.geom.umn.edu>
- Subject: Gabriel Nahas
- To: drctalk-l@netcom.com
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 94 9:12:14 CDT
-
- > >If anybody has any *facts* about Nahas as his reported retractions of
- > >findings and his fall from grace with Colombia Univ. I'd like to hear the
- > >details.
- >
- > I think Jack Herer's book has some citations to retractions made by Nahas.
- > If it wasn't Jack's book, then it was Chris Conrad's book, "Lifeline to the
- > Future."
-
- Neither one has specific references to newspapers or anything. They state
- that Columbia University held a press conference in 1976 distancing
- themselves from Nahas' research, and that Nahas made retractions of
- _some_ of his studies at a press conference in 1983, after much
- professional ridicule. I wish one of them had thought to include a
- newspaper reference or a specific date. It may be in the latest
- edition of Emperor; I've got a 1991 copy.
-
- They also talk about Nahas' associations in the UN with Kurt Waldheim
- and Lyndon Larouche, his control over all UN-sponsered cannibis research
- for a period in the early seventies, and a professional scandal in 1971
- when he published a report of a marijuana fatality in Belgium. Larouche
- and Nahas both worked at the OSS, which later became the CIA. And,
- get this, Nahas is trained as an anesthesiologist!
-
- This guy's serious bad news, and he has no credibility within the
- medical community whatsoever.
-
- References for studies repudiating Nahas' claims:
- Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 4/30/1973, pg.631:
- highly critical review of book on cannabis by Nahas
-
- Disproval of immune-system damage claims:
- Science, vol.186, 1974, pp.740-741 "Normal Skin Test Responses in Chronic
- Marihuana Users", M.J. Silverstein & P.J. Lessin
-
- ---
- Somebody needs to hook Chris Conrad up to the net. I'm sure he's got this
- kind of info ready at-hand.
-
- -stevea@geom.umn.edu Steven C. Anderson MN Grassroots Party Secretary
-