Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:37:48 -0500  
From: Kenn Thomas <skthoma@umslvma.umsl.edu>
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: Reich & Conspiracy Theories
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu

>What do conspiracy theories have to do with Reich?

Reich's work gave early exposure to conspiracies in the medical 
bureaucracy to suppress promising cancer research, for just one instance. 
A conspiracy of government agencies (FBI, FDA) led to his death and we 
still do not understand the whys and wherefores because of conspiratorial 
cover-up and the continued institutionalized conspiracy of the medical 
establishment.

>Perhaps Reich himself exhibited paranoia in his final days.  The stress
>of the intense irrational persecution of him by the medical
>establishment and government, as well as Reich's tendency to isolate himself
>can perhaps explain such a response.

There is nothing in Contact With Space or in the trial transcripts or any 
of last statements to indicate that Reich he was clinically paranoid. 
That's just an image projected by the Con.

>However, let's not forget that Reich was a scientist, and adhered to the
>scientific method.  I really don't think that the association of Reich
>with conspiracy theories does Reich justice.  It simply serves to further
>marginalize him as a "quack" or a "crank".

To ask the FDA to simply follow Reich's scientific protocol is apparently 
too much to ask without being marginalized as a conspiracy theorist. The 
OML's concern for "credibility" should not get in the way of its discussion 
of Reich's ideas or study of his work.

kt


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