only thing i'd say about this is a) the beckworth article going after alford of rice u (with a history of non-pc-isms, as a start) obviously was countered by alford himself (or james fowler of uc davis) so these issues haven 't changed since the 70's (and molecular genetics probably is not really involved while the eea (equal environmnents) is pretty hard to test (and actuAlly john hawks on his blog had a good post dissing one alford paper---though he also is associated with harpending/rogers stuff.  but i guess you get a new journal to sell to libraries (a la chaos, solitons, fractALS);  b) i wonder how you'd organize a new sftp (apart from a wine and cheese rub shoulders conference) when, for example you have r maNN promoting religion on this site.


--- On Tue, 7/7/09, herb fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: herb fox <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: A Science for the People Magazine Archive
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 10:44 PM
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> Good idea.  I offer $100 and my library of SftP-mostly
> early
> issues-subject to the following condition: After costs are
> recovered
> all earnings from sales of CDs go to any reputable attempt
> to either
> organize in the spirit of SftP, publish in the spirit of
> SftP magazine,
> or set up a conference in the spirit of SftP.  Key is
> finding someone
> willing to take on project
> 
> herb
> 
> 
> 
> Jon Beckwith wrote:
> 
>   I recently received a message from Sheldon Krimsky
> of the
> Council
> for Responsible Genetics.  He suggested the
> following:
>   "I also wanted to call your
> attention to the 25 year archive that we
> 
> > produced for Genewatch. I showed it to a few Science
> for the
> People
> 
> > alumni at a recent event and they wondered whether all
> the Sci for
> the
> 
> > People magazines could be similarly scanned as an
> archive of those
> years."
> 
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> 
>   
>   This seems like a good idea.  According to
> Shelly, it
> cost around $1000 for a CD of the CRG archive.  I know
> they are now
> giving them out for a $100 donation to CRG.  Do people
> on the
> ListServe think it's a good idea.  If so, perhaps
> the SftP'ers in
> Boston could manage it with perhaps some help from others
> on making
> sure
> we get all the old issues.  Shelly himself offered to
> donate $50 if
> we went ahead with the project.  
> 
> What do you think?
> 
>                                              
> Jon
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>   Jon Beckwith
> 
> Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
> 
> Harvard Medical School
> 
> 200 Longwood Ave.
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> Boston, MA 02115
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> Tel. 617-432-1920
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> FAX 617-738-7664
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> Remember: My book, a memoir:
>   Making Genes,
> Making Waves:
> A
> Social Activist in Science, Harvard University Press
> (2002)  Harvard
> University
> Press.  and the latest: Beckwith, J., and Morris,
> C.A. Twin
> Studies of Political Behavior: Untenable Assumptions?
> Perspectives on
> Politics 6 (4): 785-781 (2008).
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