Power, Arthur

Brew BJ, Halman M, Catalan J, Sacktor N, Price RW, Brown S, Atkinson H, Clifford DB, Simpson D, Torres G, Hall C, Power C, Marder K, Me Arthur JC, Symonds W, Romero C (2007) Factors in AIDS dementia complex trial design results and lessons from the abacavir trial. PLoS Clin Trials 2(3) el3... 

Because of the power of the placebo effect, almost anything that is believed in seems to work for some types of medical problems. That is why the late Arthur K. Shapiro described the history of medicine as largely the history of the placebo effect.4 It is also why clinical experience alone cannot tell us whether a particular physical substance is an effective treatment. Placebo-controlled trials are required to demonstrate drug efficacy before drugs are approved for marketing. 

The Chinese say A picture is worth a thousand words. The following is from Arthur Avalon s book, The Serpent Power, in which he records an experience that a European friend of his had. 

Arthur Avalon, The Serpent Power (New York Dover, 1974), pp. 20-21. 

In the Name of God, in the power of holy Michael the Archangel and in memory of Arthur the King. Amen, Selah, Amen. ... 

Q. Zhigang and K. Arthur. Improvement of water management by a micropo-rous sublayer for PEM fuel cells. Journal of Power Sources 109 (2002) 38M6. 

Figure 6.6 Arthur Edward Waite and Pamela Colman Smith, creators of the Waite-Smith Tarot, were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, possibly the most powerful occult society in history. The Chariot and The Devil are two cards from the Waite-Smith Tarot. (Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to...

Ruddock F. Mackay, Fisher of KUverstone (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1973), p.313. Arthur J. Marder, The Anatomy of British Sea Power A History of British Naval Policy in the Pre-Dreadnought Era, 1880-1905 (London Frank Cass, 1940), p. 495. 

The commitment of a large part of the British army to the Mediterranean and elsewhere meant that of the thirty-five divisions required for the cross-Channel invasion of France, only sixteen would be British, and that subsequent reinforcements would have to come from the United States. The overriding importance of the cross-Channel operation was such that from April to September 1944 the direction of Bomber Command was transferred to the American Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in North-West Europe, General Dwight Eisenhower. The appointment of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder as deputy supreme commander, with his experience of air co-operation in North Africa, ensured that optimal use was made of Allied air power. 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of all people, was completely taken in. The creator of Sherlock Holmes, the most logical and scientific of fictional detectives, was a firm believer in spiritualism, in spite of the fact that he was a physician by training and took great pride in his powers of observation. One day, while on rounds at an Edinburgh hospital, he stopped to examine a sick baby. He then told the child s mother that she must stop painting the baby s crib. When the startled lady asked him how... 

Early work in this field was conducted prior to the availability of powerful radiation sources. In 1929, E. B. Newton "vulcanized" rubber sheets with cathode-rays (16). Several studies were carried out during and immediately after world war II in order to determine the damage caused by radiation to insulators and other plastic materials intended for use in radiation fields (17, 18, 19). M. Dole reported research carried out by Rose on the effect of reactor radiation on thin films of polyethylene irradiated either in air or under vacuum (20). However, worldwide interest in the radiation chemistry of polymers arose after Arthur Charlesby showed in 1952 that polyethylene was converted by irradiation into a non-soluble and non-melting cross-linked material (21). It should be emphasized, that in 1952, the only cross-linking process practiced in industry was the "vulcanization" of rubber. The fact that polyethylene, a paraffinic (and therefore by definition a chemically "inert") polymer could react under simple irradiation and become converted into a new material with improved properties looked like a "miracle" to many outsiders and even to experts in the art. More miracles were therefore expected from radiation sources which were hastily acquired by industry in the 1950 s. 

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