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Verbatlm excerpts from the media on the conduct of science. Keep Politics Out of the Workplace I find the recent infusion of ideological views, and calls for official ACS [American Chemical Society] support of those views, in your letters section to be extremely annoying. Issues such as binary chemical weapons, SDI, and weapons control are of course issues about which citizens should be concerned. But to allow one's personal philosophy to interfere with one's profession is, to me, extremely unp


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ACS is a professional society and is composed of members with a broad spectrum of political philosophies. Official policy should deal with issues that concern its members as chemists and chemical engineers, not as liberal or conservative private citizens, even though they fit both categories. I suggest that people who oppose or support various activities of this or any other Administration contact the appropriate PAC or political party to generate pressure in the direction they prefer, and to air their left- and right-wing diatribes in a newspaper or Time magazine.

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