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BLOOD FROM AIR
Charles, Daniel. Between Genius and Genocide: The Tragedy of Fritz Haber, Father of Chemical Warfare. London: Jonathan Cape, 2005.
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AMERICA’S MASTER RACE
The Republican Primary
Clement, Scott. “Republicans Embrace Trump’s Ban on Muslims While Most Others Reject It,” Washington Post, December 14, 2015.
Cruz, Ted. “Cruz Immigration Plan,” www.tedcruz.org/cruz-immigration-plan.
Haberman, Maggie. “Donald Trump Deflects Withering Fire on Muslim Plan,” New York Times, December 8, 2015.
Hussain, Murtaza. “Majority of Americans Now Support Donald Trump’s Proposed Muslim Ban, Poll Shows,” The Intercept, March 30, 2016.
Osnos, Evan. “The Fearful and the Frustrated,” The New Yorker, August 31, 2015.
Savage, Charlie. “Plan to Bar Foreign Muslims by Donald Trump Might Survive a Lawsuit,” New York Times, December 8, 2015.
Ye Hee Lee, Michelle. “Donald Trump’s False Comments Connecting Mexican Immigrants and Crime,” Washington Post, July 8, 2015.
Madison Grant and The Passing of the Great Race
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Oshinsky, David. “No Justice for the Weak,” New York Times Book Review, March 20, 2016.
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TURNING THE MIND INSIDE OUT
Braslow, Joel. Mental Ills and Bodily Cures: Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
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THE MOSQUITO LIBERATION FRONT
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Strickman, Daniel, Stephen P. Frances, and Mustapha Debboun. Prevention of Bug Bites, Stings, and Disease. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
NOBEL PRIZE DISEASE
Linus Pauling
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Pauling, Linus. How to Live Longer and Feel Better. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1986.
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Serafini, Anthony. Linus Pauling: A Man and His Science. Lincoln, Nebraska: Paragon House Publishers, 1989.
Sherrow, Victoria. Linus Pauling: Investigating the Magic Within. Austin: Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers, 1997.
Valiunas, A. “The Man Who Thought of Everything,” The New Atlantis, Spring 2015.
Peter Duesberg
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Cohen, J. “Could Drugs, Rather Than a Virus, Be the Cause of AIDS?” Science 266 (1994): 1648–1649.
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Luc Montagnier
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LEARNING FROM THE PAST
MMR Vaccine and Autism
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Dales, L., S. J. Hammer, and N. J. Smith, “Time Trends in Autism and in MMR Immunization Coverage in California,” Journal of the American Medical Association 285 (2001): 1183–1185.
Davis, R. L., P. Kramarz, K. Bohlke, et al. “Measles-Mumps-Rubella and Other Measles-Containing Vaccines Do Not Increase the Risk for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: a Case-Control Study from the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project,” Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine 155 (2001): 354–359.
DeStefano, F., and W. W. Thompson. “MMR Vaccine and Autism: an Update of the Scientific Evidence,” Expert Review of Vaccines 3 (2004): 19–22.
DeStefano, F., T. K. Bhasin, W. W. Thompson, et al. “Age at First Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccination in Children with Autism and School-Matched Control Subjects: a Population-Based Study in Metropolitan Atlanta,” Pediatrics 113 (2004): 259–266.
Farrington, C. P., E. Miller, and B. Taylor. “MMR and Autism: Further Evidence Against a Causal Association,” Vaccine 19 (2001): 3632–3635.
Fombonne, E., and S. Chakrabarti. “No Evidence for a New Variant of Measles-Mumps-Rubella-Induced Autism,” Pediatrics 108 (2001): E58.
Honda, H., Y. Shimizu, and M. Rutter, “No Effect of MMR Withdrawal on the Incidence of Autism: a Total Population Study,” Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 4 (2005): 572–579.
Kaye, J. A., M. Mar Melero-Montes, and H. Jick, “Mumps, Measles, and Rubella Vaccine and the Incidence of Autism Recorded by General Practitioners: a Time Trend Analysis,” British Medical Journal 322 (2001): 460–463.
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