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Skeptical Inquirer, Nov-Dec, 2006 by Kendrick Frazier
James Harvey Young, social historian of American medicine, emeritus professor of history at Emory University, author of two studies of fraud, dubious cures, and health quackery, The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in American Before Federal Regulation (1961) and The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America (1967), chronicler of the origin of federal regulation of food and drugs, on July 29, 2005, in Atlanta, at the age of 90.
Karl T. Pflock, former CIA intelligence officer, former deputy assistant secretary of defense, and author/researcher who studied the Roswell crashed flying saucer story, gradually shifting from someone who wanted to believe in alien visitations to a mostly hard-nosed debunker of all key elements of the Roswell story (Roswell has become an "unbelievably byzantine urban legend" with a "lot of good tall-tale-tellers," he said in a talk in Albuquerque in 2001), summarized in his book Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe (Prometheus 2001), on June 5, 2006, of ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, at his home in Placitas, New Mexico, at the age of 63.
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