October 2007

<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">It is all a matter of beliefs, science has nothing to do with it. The latest incarnation of that belief is the prohibition to smoke in one&rsquo;s own car if a person under 18 is present. The &ldquo;base&rdquo; (read: the excuse) for the prohibition this time is a trash &ldquo;study&rdquo; published by the Harvard School of Public Health, stating that &lsquo;smoke in cars can be up to 10 times more of a health risk than secondhand smoke in a home&rsquo;.</span></p>

<p align="justify">Call your congressmen! The SCHIP veto override vote is Thursday!</p>

<p align="justify">Public Health 2007: smoking bans? Absolutely! Hospital hygiene? Don’t count on it.</p>

<p align="justify"><img alt="" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />We are pleased to present three&nbsp;videos on thought control in American universities. A common statement is that universities represent&nbsp;&quot;the marketplace of ideas.&quot; Perhaps that was so&nbsp;at some times in the past. Not&nbsp;today.</p>

<p align="justify">There is no genuine consensus on secondhand smoke, of course, just a lot of shouting to drown out reason, just a loud attempt at enshrining a pseudo-scientific political fraud notably promoted by the US Surgeon General. What we have here is mindless parroting representing a serious problem of institutional corruption.</p>

<p><span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">At the end of &quot;Evil: Part II&quot; I wrote: &lsquo;In Evil: Part III, I’ll attempt to address an idea that is popular amongst Collectivists; that knowledge of Emergent Patterns is a sign that we should start creating them ourselves by creating centralized, governmental methods of imposing them on society.&rsquo;</span></span></p>

<p align="justify">British Judge James Michael Burton has ruled that Al Gore’s documentary <em>An Inconvenient Truth</em> must be identified as one-sided political advocacy if shown in public schools.</p>

<p align="justify">Norman Kjono’s recent article in the <em>Colorado Springs Gazette</em> appears here as his latest FORCES column.</p>

<p align="justify">We link to a long article, worth reading, for the insight it provides on just how rotten &quot;Public Health&quot; really is. The article deals with treatments of several forms of cancer including prostate cancer. What would &quot;Public Health&quot; do with a drug that really beats cancer? The answer is simple: kill it.</p>

<p align="justify">If you thought severe economic damage from smoking bans was anything less than universal read the news from Hong Kong.</p>