Popular press

Note that the popular press often misuses terms like induction and synchronous when applied to linear motors. 

In recent years concerns have been raised in the popular press about possible side effects from the MMR vaccine, which is given to infants to guard against measles, mumps and rubella. Although this has led to a drop in the levels of vaccination, the advice from health professionals continues to be in favour of vaccination, because even if the claimed side effects were shown to be true, failure to vaccinate would still statistically pose the greater health risk due to the detrimental effects of the diseases themselves. 

The functions of nitrite added to meat for the purpose of curing are now well known by many people because of the extensive publicity given to the process via the popular press. Nitrite added to meat results in a typical color and a characteristic flavor, provides microbiological protection especially against outgrowth of C. botulinum spores and may play a role in textural characteristics. 

There is virtually no one who is involved in drug abuse research, or who studies the properties of recreationally used drugs, that is not by now familiar with 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) (figure 1). Over the past 4 years this substance, usually referred to in the popular press as Ecstasy, has received widespread media attention. This chapter will relate recent findings with respect to the potential dangers attendant on the use of MDMA and explore its pharmacological properties. 

It has become one of the commonplaces in this area, however, that such behavioural genetic stories are regularly trumpeted in the popular press and almost always withdrawn without ceremony in the professional scientific literature a few weeks or months later. 

Hermetic and Rosicmdan circles such as the Golden Dawn began to engage more publicly with science after the discoveries of radiation, radioactive transformation, and radium. In a case like that of the Alchemical Society, two subjects, alchemy and radiation,4 allowed the groups from sharply different social worlds—those of mainstream science and occultism—to interact. These interactions also contributed to the popular press s alchemical understanding of the newly emerging discourse of atomic physics. 

The popular press likewise emphasized the significance of the Chemical Society meeting. C. Ainsworth Mitchell noted that Two papers were recently read before the Chemical Society, the importance of which to physics and chemistry it is hardly possible to over-estimate. Summarizing accounts from the Chemical News and the Morning Post, the columnist explains the papers by Ramsay and by Collie and Patterson, and notes ... 

Misconceptions about food additives are perpetuated in the media and popular press, and recently have been disseminated via the Internet. There is confusion about the sources and functions of these compounds. Consumers are confused, for example, about the relative safety of natural as opposed to artificial food ingredients. A number of studies have shown consumers suspicion of synthetic chemicals in foods which are seen as posing a higher health risk than natural ingredients (Sloan et al., 1986 McNutt et al., 1986 Crowe et al., 1992). Unrealistic fears about food additives may be attributed in part to the public s fundamental lack of understanding of toxicology, including the failure to appreciate the concept of dose or the body s capacity to metabolize and detoxify the myriad of food constituents people are exposed to daily (Jones, 1992). 

Red No. 3 in 1998 (Fig. 8.1). Colorants in the three categories above were termed certified colorants but the Color Additive Amendment also set up a category of exempt colorants which were not subject to the rigorous requirements of the certified colorants. There are 26 colorants in this category (Table 8.1) and they comprise most of the preparations which would be called natural in other countries. The US does not officially recognize the term natural but it is often used in the popular press. 

Schroeder, F. E. H. (1993). Front yard America The evolution and meanings of a vernacular domestic landscape. Bowling Green, OH Bowling Green State University Popular Press. 

Most of the mention of cholesterol in the popular press positions this molecule as a threat to human health. Many foods are proudly labeled cholesterol-free. People are properly warned to pay attention to their plasma cholesterol level, particnlarly that carried in the low-density lipoproteins, LDLs, commonly known, with pretty good reason, as bad cholesterol. LDLs are lipoprotein particles containing a large protein known as B-100 associated with cholesterol, cholesteryl esters, phospholipids, and some triglycerides. 

A frequently cited merit of biodegradable plastics is their lack of persistance in an intact state "environmentally friendly" is a widely used vernacular phrase, but there has also been speculation in the popular press that degradable plastics will release potentially harmful additives into the environment when the plastics degrade or disintegrate. An ideal biodegradable plastic will leave no undegraded polymeric residues, and for these materials, the persistance of additives as well as the polymers must be considered. In this case, the issue is not whether or not the additive... 

This inconsistency also applies to our perception of risk associated with medicinal products, even though most are remarkably safe. This is not the impression given by reports in the popular press and in television programmes which purport to provide the public with a factual view of medicine but which in fact emphasise the most sensational aspects and spread alarm. A useful review of safety and risk may be found in The BMA Guide to Living with Risk, which brings into perspective the dangers encountered in everyday life. 

Pheromones, especially insect pheromones, have become common news stories in the popular press and hence are well known to most people. For instance, most elementary schools in the USA now include coverage of pheromones in general science and biology courses. Concomitant with this widespread coverage and inclusion in elementary school curricula is ongoing basic and applied research, which leads to important practical uses and beneficial applications. Since Butenandt s initial report on the pheromone of the silk worm moth, there have been many reviews of pheromones and recent ones are cited here. This review of the chemistry of insect pheromones will cover the isolation and identification of new pheromones and the synthesis of these compounds as well as other recently reported syntheses of important pheromones. 

Another author, this time one who was literally pataphysical or rampantly pseudo scientific, and who was stated to have been favored by Duchamp at this crucial moment in his development, was Alfred-Henri Jarry (1873-1907). He probably served Duchamp as a role model, that of an intellectual child prodigy of the more negative or irresponsible sort. As portrayed later in the popular press, Jarry was a model enfant terrible-, as he was described by a former classmate, Henri Hertz, jarry... 

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