Abstract
To the Editor:— Many years ago, when medicine was the art of healing, novitiates were taught that there were three kinds of healing: healing by first intention, the ideal process but sufficient only up to a point; healing by second intention, usually accompanied by laudable pus; and healing by third intention, which leaves an ugly scar. Today we seem to be taught, per Madison Avenue, to build a public image with three kinds of lying: lying of the first intention, over-simplification by the educator (a necessary part of teaching, but sufficient only up to a point); lying of the second intention, misinterpretation through ignorance (ignorance is laudable in science as long as an attempt is made to remedy this); and lying of the third intention, the intent to deceive (which leaves an ugly scar). The current public radiation hysteria, history's third such period and now a political football, is an
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