On Jul 26, 2013, at 12:14 PM, Mike Palij wrote: > P.S. Re: Stewart: as the article cited below notes, the quote associated > with Stewart was a popular view long before he is claimed to have said it > as noted by Gerald Pier to wrote a letter in response to one of Spellberg's > earlier papers...
Yes, I agree. In fact, Bonnie Taylor-Blake, the co-author of the paper I referenced yesterday, said as much in a post she sent this morning to another listserv I subscribe to: "A few years ago I traded emails with a journalist who had been involved early on in the transmission of this misattribution. In the end she offered that even if the former Surgeon General had not said, in effect, that because of mid-century advances in medicine we could stop worrying about the specter of infectious disease, this view was common among U.S. physicians ca. 1970, which for her was the larger point. Therefore, William H. Stewart, who had a pretty stellar record as Surgeon General, serves as a convenient scapegoat." Best, Jeff -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=26653 or send a blank email to leave-26653-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
