THE FAR SIDE
By GARY LARSON
"Letter from Lonso. ... And he sounds pretty lonely."
Professor will talk on quack doctors
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Bv NOEL GERDES
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Staff writer
Quackery is so widespread it threatens the authority of science, said a Chancellor's Club teaching professor of history and philosophy of medicine.
date scientists. Sometimes it's difficult to determine who's a quack and who's simply an ignorant practitioner, he said.
Although some quacks may truly believe in their cures, most are in business for the money. Quackery is a $10 billion-a-year business because
"It's almost impossible to identify the modern health quack," said Robert Hudson, the professor.
University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 14. 1987
billion-a-year business in Hudson said the drug called Laet-
erudition. Heiden will discuss science and quack, scientific frauds, at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. His lecture is the first of four in the 1987-88 Humanities Lecture Series.
Hudson said that consumers found it difficult to tell quacks and legitimate medical doctors apart because many modern quocks looked reputable, had doctorates and used up-to-date scientific terms.
rile was an example of how quackery usurped science. Although the U.S. National Cancer Institute tested the drug and said in 1981 that it was worthless and sometimes dangerous, the public was willing to believe it was a cure for cancer.
Because of public pressure, 23 states, including Kansas, have legalized the drug. Hudson said.
"Where science is really a dominant force in society, quackery thrives," he said, adding that quacks feed on scientific discoveries.
Hudson said radiation treatment for arthritis in the 1980s was such an example.
An early 1900s Kansas quack, John R. Brinkley, was so charismatic that he was almost elected governor in 1930 as a write-in candidate, Hudson said. Brinkley read that scientists were neutering baby chickens and using hormones to change them from roosters to hens. Brinkley came up with the idea to transplant goat testicles into humans to rejuvenate his patients and became a millionaire, Hudson said.
Unique financing for sports clubs proposed
By BRAD ADDINGTON Staff writer
Staff writer
KU sports clubs will go through a financing process different from that of other KU organizations if an amendment to Student Senate rules is approved next month.
Stephanie Quincy, student body vice president, said she hoped to present an amendment at the Senate's Oct. 7 meeting that would make the recreation services advisory board a subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee.
She said the advisory board was more familiar than the finance committee with the needs of sports clubs.
"Recreation Services sees them a lot more than we do," she said.
The recreation services advisory board, which is appointed by Senate, advises Item 10. It offers athletic needs and interests. It has six student members. Staff members of Recreation Services, which is a division of the department of health, physical education and recreation, advise the board but do not vote.
Organizations request money from Senate in the spring for the following school year. They also may make money to provide for immediate money at any time.
Under the plan, sports clubs would request money from the advisory board, which would make recommendations about allocations to the finance committee. The finance committee makes recommendations to the full Senate.
Quincy also recommended that the board have 13 students.
A recreation services task force met Friday to discuss the role of the individual in the school web which was initiated by David Amble, vice chancellor for student
affairs, has been meeting since June under the direction of Caryl Smith, associate vice chancellor for student affairs.
At Friday's meeting, Quincy recommended that the advisory board continue to meet monthly.
"What if the board meets and they don't have a quorum? Then they'll have to wait until the next meeting, and that will be a problem," he said.
But task force member Rick Cameron, outdoor education and special events coordinator for Recreation Services, expressed concern about the advisory board meeting only once a month.
Several task force members said they were concerned that the advisory board might recommend that Senate allocate too much money.
Jason Krankow, student body president, said. "There's good evidence between the two."
chairman of the finance committee and the chairman of the advisory board."
In 1984, Senate gave the advisory board a set amount to allocate to sports clubs. Quincy said that method of financing resulted in too many sports clubs competing for the money that Recreation Services had to offer.
In 1985, the Senate finance committee resumed hearing requests from sports clubs along with other University organizations.
sity of organizations.
But that process also had problems, Quincy said, which is why she recommended the new plan.
"There has been a lot of inconsistency," Quincy said. "In the past, we'd pay one club for their coach, and we wouldn't pay another club for their coach."
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