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From: markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: Omni-Americans
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Date: 4 Mar 88 05:07:12 GMT
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Summary: What you'll get.

In article <5017@uwmcsd1.UUCP> markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:
>Read Omni instead of Scientific American.  It's much better because it has 
>all things Futuristic in it, be they science fact or science fiction (i.e.
>science yet-to-be-fact).

... particularily, this months issue had an interesting article discussing
the research being done on a hot topic in Immunology : Growth Factors.
Possible outgrowths of this up-and-coming medical revolution are:

	 Fast healing (esp. for post-surgical treatment),
	 Treatment of memory disorders,
	 Controlling the white blood cell count (**already achieved**),
	 Controlling male sterility/ male contraceptive
	 Controlling cell growth
		 - understanding biogenesis, how cells divide & differentiate,
		 - understanding cancer, what triggers cell growth

The list goes on. A Nobel prize has already been awarded in this field (1986).

The magazine successfully deals with the issue of distinguishing between
Pseudo-Science and Science by not making it.  This is good for free-thinkers
whose minds are not constrained by hypocritical attitudes about knowledge
that they cannot go off on a random search into the unknown.  

As they (should) say, the only way to new knowledge is to improve a Pseudo-
Science until it becomes established as a Science (e.g. Physics, Psychology).
Omni provides a forum for that.