Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 23:22:40 -0500
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
From: Kenn Thomas <skthoma@umslvma.umsl.edu>
Subject: Re: Saganene
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu

>history will remember Sagan for this one fact, at least as much as for
>anything positive he has accomplished.

Absolutely. 

I'm still mulling over his critique that people who have an interest in crop 
circles and the panoply of newagisms, and I assume Reich and orgonomy, might 
not have any room left for what he thinks is "real" science. Come again? Is 
there only so much room for scientific understanding? I don't get it.

Of course, this was in a CSICOP rag that confused Jim Morrison, late of the 
Doors, with Jim Marrs, who wrote a quite well-known book on JFK.

I recently watched a Nova special on PBS about the discovery of a new form 
of pure carbon (diamonds and graphite being the only two heretofore). 
Because of its hexagonal/pentagonal shape, the discoverers called it 
buckminsterfullerene, which I thought was great. The special framed the 
whole discovery process as you might expect PBS would, making Exxon look 
relatively benevolent and under-playing the fact that the scientists almost 
missed the discovery because of their mechanistic blinders. Don't look any 
time soon at a Nova special for the scientific rediscovery of orgone, 
though, unless they come upon its value as a superconductor.

wilhelmreichene?

kt
Kenn Thomas



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