Orgone Biophysical Research Lab
Ashland, Oregon, USA
A Record of Various Deliberated Misrepresentations, Distortions, Attacks and Smears
Directed Against Wilhelm Reich and His Supporters in the Science of Orgonomy Since the 1930s,
With a List of published articles giving rebuttal and analysis of the same.
Covering both the Early and Contemporary European and American Campaigns.
A. Experiments Undertaken by the Food and Drug Administration:
In the 1950s, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) contracted with several medical institutions to experimentally test the orgone accumulator. The papers listed below were obtained by James DeMeo in the 1980s, through a Freedom of Information Act search of FDA files. They presently remain on file in the FDA headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. None of them were of publishable quality, and most contained major misunderstandings and errors of fact regarding the functioning of the orgone accumulator, the object of most of the studies; other glaring errors in traditional scientific method prevailed in the execution of the experiments, rendering them substandard scientifically. Cover letters to these papers often revealed contempt for the work, and an explicit desire to "prove" Reich a fraud, reflecting the witch-hunt atmosphere that the FDA tests were conducted in. The FDA materials have been more than adequately rebutted in citations 1972d, 1972p, 1973m, 1974g, and 1983b in the larger chronological bibliography. Other materials were contained within the FDA files which discussed a small number of medical tests with the orgone accumulator not reflected in any of the given citations. However, these were not presented in an organized paper format and, given their loose and nondescript nature, were not cited here.
* Heller, R.: "A Review of Dr. Reich's Literature from a Physics Point of View", Report to the US FDA from R. Heller.
* Krusen, F.: "Study of Devices Recommended by Wilhelm Reich for the Treatment of Various Diseases as Submitted by the Federal Food and Drug Administration", Report to I. Kerlan of the US FDA from F. Krusen of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 1953.
* Lion, Kurt: "Investigations on the Orgone Accumulator", Report to R. Heller of the US FDA from K. Lion of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1953.
* Malcolm, H.: "A Report of Twenty-Two Cancer Patients Treated with the Orgone Accumulator and Blanket", Report to the US FDA from H. Malcolm of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1953?
* Murray, W.: "Report on Tests Conducted with the Reich Orgone Accumulator", Report to K. Brimmer of the US FDA from W. Murray of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, 1953.
* Norcross, J.: "Report on the Use of the Orgone Energy Accumulator in the Treatment of Anemia", Report to J. Maguire of the US FDA from J. Norcross of the Lahey Clinic, Boston, 1954.
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS against the FDA materials and legal case can be found at:
* Blasband, Richard A.: "An Analysis of the United States Food and Drug Administration's Scientific Evidence Against Wilhelm Reich, Part I, the Biomedical Evidence", Journal of Orgonomy, 6(2):207-222, 1972.
* Baker, Courtney F. (pseud. Rosenblum, C.F.): "An Analysis of the United States Food and Drug Administration's Scientific Evidence Against Wilhelm Reich, Part II, the Physical Concepts", Journal of Orgonomy, 6(2):222-231, 1972.
* Baker, Courtney F. (pseud. Rosenblum, C.F.): "An Analysis of the Food and Drug Administration's Scientific Evidence Against Wilhelm Reich, Part III, Physical Evidence", Journal of Orgonomy, 7(2):234-245, 1973.
* Greenfield, Jerome: Wilhelm Reich versus the USA, W.W. Norton, NY 1974.
* DeMeo, James: "Postscript on the Food and Drug Administration's Scientific Evidence Against Wilhelm Reich", Pulse of the Planet 1:18-23 Spring 1989.
* DeMeo, James: "Anti-Constitutional Activities and Abuse of Police Power by the US Food and Drug Administration and Other Governmental Agencies", Pulse of the Planet 4:106-113 1993.
B. Ongoing Attacks Made in Popular Publications, with REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS publications (Partial Listing):
This section includes books, magazine and newspaper articles which contain a greater or lesser amount of unfactual, distorted, and poorly-researched materials on Reich or orgonomy, materials which attack Reich on emotional grounds, for "moral" reasons, which condemn his biophysical research as "fraud", "quackery", and so on, and which generally possess a contemptuous tone. None attempt to either trace the red thread of logic in his overall theory, or make significant reference to published experiments. Most of these works cite rumor and gossip as fact, and others are downright vicious in their use of fabrications. Such approaches are most prevalent where genitality and orgone biophysics are discussed. A few of these authors devote 95% of their works to analyzing and sometimes praising Reich's early contributions to psychoanalysis, only to contemptuously or flippantly dismiss his studies on genitality and orgone biophysics, often in a few short, distorted paragraphs or pages. The list is not thorough, and includes only the most widely read of such materials. Opinions formulated about Reich or orgonomy based upon these works cannot possibly be accurate or factual. For detailed discussion and response to these attacks, see citations 1948b, 1972d, 1972p, 1973m, 1974g, 1983b, and 1983g. Also see the citations with keywords "history" or "emotional plague" for additional discussion and documentation on the prejudice against Reich within the FDA and medical establishment, and the anti-Reich media campaign which occurred in the late 1940s and 1950s.
Articles appearing on internet provide web site addresses which may not remain current for extended periods. A listing of foreign newspaper and magazine articles attacking Reich, which also includes materials from the years prior to his arrival in America, can be found in citation 1953g of this Bibliography. Note that these European materials are exceedingly incomplete, and reflect only a fraction of the published attacks against Reich during that period.
1920s - early 1930s: Reich's Early Psychoanalytic and Sex-Political Work in Vienna and Berlin
1931:
* Kautsky, Karl: Irrational critical article in Gleichheit No.7, Berlin, 1931. (cited in Leistikow 1942, p.266).
1932:
* Bernfeld, Siegfried: "Die kommunistische Diskussion um die Psychoanalyse und Reich's 'Widerlegung der Todestriebhypothese'", Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, XVIII, 1932.
* anon.: Article in Nazi press attacking Reich, Völkischer Beobachter, Berlin. Date uncertain, c.1932. (cited in Leistikow 1942, p.267).
* anon.: Notice prohibiting distribution of Reich's books, Roter Sport (Red Sport), publiction of Fichte, the Berlin-Brandenburg communist sports organization. 5 Dec. 1932.
1933: Reich Departs Germany for Denmark, to Escape Nazi Persecution.
* anon.: Various undated articles in Danish and Norwegian newspapers attacking Reich, discussing attacks against him, and occasionally defending him: "German Psychoanalyst Has Been Practicing Here and Took Payment for His Consultations", "From Fashionability to Martyrdom", "The Patient Whom Reich Treated", "The Psychoanalysts are Preparing for a Fight: Your Physician, Dr. Reich from Vienna, is denied permission to stay", "Psycho-Analysis", "Open Letter to Chief Physician Schroeder", "Wilhelm Reich, M.D., denied permission to stay in Denmark", "Psychoanalysis Outside the Three-Mile Limit", Extrabladet, Ugeskrift for Laeger, and others, Copenhagen 1933.(cited in Siersted 1993).
* anon.: Article in Communist Party press attacking Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascism, in Arbejderbladet (The Daily Worker), Copenhagen 1933.(cited in Leistikow 1942 p.269, and Siersted 1993 p.53).
1934: Reich Departs Denmark for Norway (in October) Following Continued Fascist Attacks in Denmark.
* anon.: "Pjank! (Nonsense!)", Berlinske Tidende, Copenhagen, 1934.
1935:
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Reich, Wilhelm: "Der Ausschluss Wilhelm Reich aus der IPV (The Expulsion of Wilhelm Reich from the International Psychoanalytic Association)", Zeitschrift für Politische Psychologie und Sexualökonomie , II:54-61, 1935 [translation contained in Reich 1947].
* anon.: Order prohibiting publications by Reich, Deutsches Reichsgesetzblatt, Gestapo of Berlin, 13 April and 7 May, 1935.
1937:
* Langfeldt, Mohr & Hansen: Smears against Reich in newspaper interviews, Norway 1937 (cited in Leistikow 1942, p.270).
* Nissen, Ingjald: Smears Reich in newspaper interview, Norway, 27 Oct. 1937 (cited in Leistikow 1942, p.270).
1938:
* Kreyberg & Thjötta: Smears against Reich in newspapers, Norway 1938 (cited in Leistikow 1942, p.271).
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Leistikow, Gunnar: "Sensational Scientific Experiments", Socialdemokraten, 3 March 1938 (translated in Siersted 1993, p.62-63).
* Nissen, Ingjald & Scharffenberg, Johan: "Psychoanalytic Quackery", Smears Reich in newspaper, Norway, c.January 1938 (cited in Leistikow 1942, p.271).
* anon.: Various articles attacking Reich, Morgenbladet, and the fascist Tidens Tegn, Norway c.1938 (cited in Leistikow 1942, p.272).
* anon.: Editorial on "God Reich", Tidens Tegn, fascist newspaper, Norway 1938 (cited in Leistikow 1942, p.272).
* anon.: Article attacking Reich, Berlinske Tidende, Copenhagen, c.1938.
1939: Reich Departs Norway for the USA (on 11 August) Following Continued Fascist Attacks Against His Work.
1942:
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Leistikow, Gunnar: "The Fascist Newspaper Campaign in Norway", Int. J. Sex-Economy & Orgone Res., I:266-273, 1942.
* Meyerson, A.: Distorted review of Reich's Function of the Orgasm, in American Journal of Psychiatry, November 1942 (critique in Wolfe 1943).
* anon.: Distorted review of Reich's Function of the Orgasm, in Journal of the American Medical Association, 12 Dec. 1942 (critique in Wolfe 1943).
1943:
* Grotjahn, Martin: "Review of Reich's Function of the Orgasm", Psychosomatic Medicine, 5, p.309, 1943.
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Wolfe, Theodore: "Misconceptions of Sex-Economy as Evidence in Book Reviews", Int. J. Sex-Economy & Orgone Res., II:166--172, 1943.
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * anon.: "On Defamations", Int. J. Sex-Economy & Orgone Res., II:190-191, 1943.
1944:
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Wolfe, Theodore: "On a Common Motive for Defamation", Int. J. Sex-Economy & Orgone Res., III:71-73, 1944.
1946:
* Wertham, Frederick: "Book Review of The Mass Psychology of Fascism", New Republic, 2 December 1946.
1947:
* Brady, Mildred E.: "The New Cult of Sex and Anarchy", Harper's Magazine, April 1947.
* Brady, Mildred E.: "The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich", New Republic, 26 May 1947; reprinted in Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 12(2):61-67, March 1948; condensation reprinted as "Is the World Sexually Sick?", Everybody's Digest, December 1947.
* Henderson, Harry & Shaw, Sam: "Greenwich Village: Tourist Trap", Colliers, 6 December 1947.
* Portigal, Alan: McGill Daily, Montreal, 4 December 1947.
* Puner, Hellen Walker: Freud: His Life and Mind, chapter on "The Larger World of Psychoanalysis", Howell Soskin Publishers, NY 1947.
* Smith, H: "Editorial: The New Coast of Bohemia", Saturday Review of Literature, 16 August 1947 (see rebuttal letters published on 20 September 1947).
* anon.: Article attacking Reich, Time, 14 April 1947.
* anon.: "Beware of the Medical Frauds!", Saturday Evening Post, 22 Nov. 1947.
1948:
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Wolfe, Theodore: Emotional Plague Versus Orgone Biophysics: The 1947 Campaign, Orgone Institute Press, NY, 1948.
* anon.: "Bebop" article, Mademoiselle, January 1948.
* anon.: "The People's Life Preservers", Collier's, 3 January 1948.
1949:
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Ollendorff, Ilse: "Note Regarding Rumors", Orgone Energy Bulletin, I(1):36-37, 1949.
* anon.: "Cancer and the Need for Facts: Orgone Accumulator", Report of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, Journal of the American Medical Association, 139(2):96-97, 8 January 1949.
* anon.: "Cancer 'Cures' Beware", Consumer's Report, March 1949.
1950:
* Clecklev, P.: The Mask of Sanity, updated 1950 edition.
* Franzblau, R.: "Guide to the Perplexed: The Theories of Wilhelm Reich", Sunday Compass, August 1950.
* Gardner, Martin: "The Hermit Scientist", Antioch Rev,, winter 1950-1951.
1951:
* Frazier, G.: "Are Psychoanalysts Crazy?", Cosmopolitan, January 1951.
* Martinez, J.M.: Man in Nature & Behavior, Philosoph. Library, 1951.
* anon.: Colliers, 26 May 1951, p.53-54.
1952:
* Fowler, Francis: "Strange Case of the Orgone Box", Man's Magazine #1, c.July 1952.
* Gardner, Martin: chapter on "Orgonomy" in In The Name of Science (later titled Fads and Fallacies In the Name of Science), Dover, NY 1952.
1953:
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Reich, Wilhelm: "Modju at Work in Journalism", Orgone Energy Bulletin, V(1-2):85-89, 1953.
1954:
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Reich, Wilhelm: Conspiracy: An Emotional Chain Reaction, Orgone Institute Press, Rangeley, Maine, 1954.
* Ross, I.: "The Strange Case of Dr. Wilhelm Reich", New York Post, 5 September 1954.
1955:
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Reich, Wilhelm: Response To Ignorance, Wilhelm Reich Biographical Material, History of the Discovery of the Life Energy, documentary supplement No. 1, A-XII-EP, Orgone Institute Press, Maine, 1955.
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Reich, Wilhelm: The Red Thread of a Conspiracy, Wilhelm Reich Biographical Material, History of the Discovery of the Life Energy, Documentary Supplement No. 2, A-XII-EP, Orgone Institute Press, Maine, 1955.
1956:
* McKeon, B.: "Sex Cult With Class", Sir!, December 1956.
* Wingo, W.: "Learn to Read the Faces of Foxes, Dried-Out Lemons, Haters of Love", Washington Daily News, 28 September 1956.
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Wyvell, Lois: The Jailing of a Great Scientist in the USA, privately published, NY, 1956; reprinted in Wyvell 1993. (Includes "An Eyewitness Report of the Burning of Scientific Books in the USA, 1956", by Victor Sobey.)
* anon.: "Quieting the Quacks", Daily Oklahoman, 30 September 1956.
1957:
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Boadella, David: "The Murder of Reich, 1957", Orgonomic Functionalism, IV(6):250-253, 1957.
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Ritter, Paul: "The Persecution of Wilhelm Reich and the Silence of the Press", Orgonomic Functionalism, IV(1):3-14, 1957.
1960:
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Kelley, Charles: The Ending of Wilhelm Reich's Researches, Interscience Research Institute, Stamford, CT, 1960.
1962:
* anon.: "Con Men: The Man Who Boxed Sex. Dr. Wilhelm Reich and 'Orgone Energy'", True: The Man's Magazine, April 1962.
1963:
* Brown, C.: "Dr. Wilhelm Reich and his Magic Box", Nugget, 1963.
* anon.: "Morals" article, Time, 24 January 1963.
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * anon.: "News and Comment: Reich Smear Articles Continue", Creative Process, III(2):49-50, 1963.
1969:
* Cattier, Michael: La vie et l'oeuvre du docteur Wilhelm Reich, Lausanne: Editions l'Age d'Homme, 1969. Translation by Ghislaine Boulanger.
* Robinson, Paul: The Freudian Left: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse, Harper & Row, NY, 1969.
1970:
* Cattier, Michael: The Life and Work of Wilhelm Reich, Horizon Press, NY 1970. Reprint by Avon, NY, 1971. Translated from original French edition, 1969.
* Chesser, Eustace: "New View of a Discredited Pioneer", Penthouse, March 1970.
1971:
* Makavejev, Dusan: WR Mysteries of the Organism, Film Release, 1971. See the critical review by DeMeo, 2007.
* Rycroft, Charles: Wilhelm Reich, Viking Press, NY, 1971.
1972:
* Chesser, Eustice: Reich and Sexual Freedom, Vision Press, London, 1972.
* Makavejev, Dusan: WR Mysteries of the Organism, Book, Avon Publishers 1972. See the critical review by DeMeo, 2007.
1973:
* Chesser, Eustice: Salvation Through Sex: The Life and Work of Wilhelm Reich, William Morrow, NY, 1973 (Basically a re-hash of his 1972 missive.)
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Ganz, M.: "A 'Purely Scientific' Attack", Journal of Orgonomy, 7(1):138, 1973.
1974:
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Bell, John: "An Attack by the Radical Left: A Report", Journal of Orgonomy, 8(1):65-78, 1974.
1975:
* Montgomery, L.: "5 Classes Taken From Teacher; Action Sparks Student Protest", Miami Herald, 29 April 1975, p.1,4-B.
1978:
* Raditsa, Leo: Some Sense About Wilhelm Reich, Philosophical Lib., NY 1978.
1979:
* Demisch, H.: "What ist von der 'Orgon'-Hypothese Wilhelm Reichs zu halten? (What About Wilhelm Reich's 'Orgone' Hypothesis?)", in Sexualität und Medizin, Volkmar Sigusch, ed., Koln, 1979. [See the notation on this by James DeMeo, at: http://www.orgonelab.org/xviva.htm ]
1980:
* Van Haintze, Bill & Finder, Alan: "An Attempt to Save the World", Newsday, 2 Oct. 1980. p.3, 25. [About the arrest of Joel Carlinsky]
1981:
* Wilson, C.: The Quest for Wilhelm Reich: A Critical Biography, Anchor/Doubleday, NY, 1981.
1982:
* Marin, P.: "What Was Reich's Secret", Psychology Today, September 1982, p.56-65; cf. letter, February 1983, p.22.
1986:
* Mairowitz, D. & Gonzales, G.: Reich For Beginners, Writers & Readers, NY, 1986.
1988:
* Earl, Alice: "Who or What, Pray Tell, is the So-Called 'College' of Orgonomy!?", Peer Advocate, May 1988.
* Gardner, Martin: "Reich the Rainmaker: The Orgone Obsession", Skeptical Inquirer, Vol.13, p.26-30, 1988.
* anon.: "Professor at UNI Supports Orgone Energy for Drought Relief". ISRAP Newsletter, Vol.2, No.3, Summer 1988, p.1-2.
1989:
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * DeMeo, James: "Response to Martin Gardner's Attack on Reich and Orgone Research in the Skeptical Inquirer", Pulse of the Planet 1:11-17 Spring 1989. http://www.orgonelab.org/gardner.htm
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * DeMeo, James: "Emotional Plague Report", Pulse of the Planet 1:23 Spring 1989.
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * DeMeo, James: "Emotional Plague Notes", Pulse of the Planet 2:52-53 Spring 1989.
1990:
* Adams, Cecil: "The Straight Dope", Baltimore City Paper, late 1990 (syndicated).
* Carlinsky, Joel: "Orgonomy in New Jersey", New York Skeptic, Fall 1990.
1991:
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * DeMeo, James: "Emotional Plague Report", Pulse of the Planet, 3:118-121 Summer 1991.
* Morrock, Richard: article attacking American College of Orgonomy meeting in Princeton, New Jersey, in Skeptical Inquirer, late 1991.
* anon.: Powers of Healing, Time-Life, 1991, section repeating Brady/Gardner smears on the accumulator, p.101. Early 1991.
* anon.: Journal, American Medical Assoc., 2 Oct. 1991, Two articles attacking Ayur-Veda therapy, with derrogatory notes about orgonomy and orgone therapy.
1992:
* Carlinsky, Joel: "Warning: The Coming of the Cloudbuster", Green Living, Winter 1993/1994, p.4.
1993:
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * DeMeo, James: "Emotional Plague Report", Pulse of the Planet, 4:123-124 1993.
1994:
* Carlinsky, Joel: "Epigones of Orgonomy: The Incredible History of Wilhelm Reich and his Followers", Skeptic, Vol.2, No.3, 1994, p.90-92.
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * DeMeo, James: "In Defense of Orgonomy", Skeptic, Vol.2, No.4, p.15-17, 1994.
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * DeMeo, James: "In Defense of Reich and Cloudbusting", Green Living, Spring 1994, p.6.
* Morrock, Richard: "Pseudo-Psychotherapy: UFOs, Cloudbusters, conspiracies and Paranoia in Wilhelm Reich's Psychotherapy", Skeptic, Vol.2, No.3, 1994, p.93-95.
1995:
* Bauer, Henry: "Sexpols, Orgone Energy, Cloud Busters, and Bions: Remembered, but Not Relevant" (Book Review of Reich's Beyond Psychology), Skeptical Inquirer, September/October 1995.
* Carlinsky, Joel: "Orgone Therapy and Mind Control: Right-Wing Cult or CIA Front", EDIOS, Winter 1995.
* Carlinsky, Joel: "Orgonomy Peddlers, Cloudbusting, and the Environment", Internet postings to:
Orgonomy Mailing List and PORE: http://www.orgone.org/articles/ax7jdzwz1.htm
KeeleyNet: http://www.keelynet.com/ecology/cloudbst.htm
1996:
* Baker, Robert: Mind Games: Are We Obsessed With Therapy, by Robert Baker, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY, Chapter on "Orgonomy: Wilhelm Reich and the Legacy of Freud and Jung, 1996.
* Carlinsky, Joel: "Orgonomy Peddlers, Cloudbusting, and the Environment", Paranoia Magazine, #13, 1996.
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * DeMeo, James: "Response to 'Orgonomy Peddlers' Article". http://www.orgonelab.org/orgpedresp.htm
* Raso, Jack & Kroger, Manfred: The Dictionary of Metaphysical Healthcare: Alternative Medicine, Paranormal Healing, and Related Methods, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY, 1996. Distorted sections on "Orgone Therapy", "Reich Blood Test", "Reichian Breathwork" and "Reichian Therapy.
1997:
* anon.: Skeptical Inquirer, 21(3):5, May/June 1997, ridicule of cloudbusting work.
1998:
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Martin, Jim & Thomas, Kenn: "Toxic Disinformation: Joel Carlinsky's Bonfire of Insanity", Steamshovel Press. Internet Posting to: http://www.umsl.edu/~skthoma/carl.htm
1999:
* Cohen, Hal: "A Secret History of the Sexual Revolution", Lingua Franca, 1999.
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * DeMeo, James: "Orgone Oracle (Letter to the Editor, responding to Hal Cohen's 'A Secret History of the Sexual Revolution')", Lingua Franca, July/August 1999, p.5,65.
* Gilman, Richard: "Orgonization Man - People thought he was crazy, Wilhelm Reich", New York Times Review of Books, 5 Sept. 1999, a nasty review of the Reich book American Odyssey: Letters and Journals, 1940-1947.
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Steig, William & Willis, Ellen: REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS letters to a malicious "book review", New York Times Review of Books, 3 Oct. 1999.
* Makavejev, Dusan: WR Mysteries of the Organism, Book, British Film Institute, 1999. See the critical review by DeMeo, 2007.
* Morrock, Richard: "The World in an Orgone Box", Journal of Psychohistory, 26(4):854-858, Spring 1999.
http://www.geocities.com/kidhistory/ja/worldin.htm
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * DeMeo, James: "Shredding Saharasia: A Response to Richard Morrock's 'Review'", Journal of Psychohistory, 26(4):858-863, Spring 1999.
http://www.geocities.com/kidhistory/ja/shreddin.htm
* Wallace, Mark: "Crackpot Authorities", Salon Magazine, smear of Reich, posted to:
http://www.salonmagazine.com/books/feature/1999/08/17/crackpots/print.html
* Frederic Golden, Leon Jaroff, Jeffrey Kluger and Michael D. Lemonick: "Cranks, Villains and Unsung Heroes " Time Magazine, 29 March 1999. Reich put on same magazine page as Lysenko and Josef Mengele.
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/other/unsung2.html
2000:
* Befumo, J.P.: The Oranur Conspiracy: A Biographical Thriller, Based on the life of Wilhelm Reich, Xlibris.com, 2000.
* Harkavy, Jerry: "Discredited Scientist's Disciples Keep the Faith", Maine Today, Portland, 17 July 2000.
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * Martin, Jim: Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War, Flatland Books, Mendocino, CA, 2000. (Excellent documentation of the Communist Party and possible Soviet connections of Reich's major detractors.)
2001:
* Bauer, Henry: Science or Pseudoscience, U. of Illinois Press, 2001. (Contains chapter materials with typical misrepresentations and ommissions about Reich's findings.)
* Correa, Paulo & Correa, Alexandra: "To Be Done With (An)Orgonomists", Akronos Publishing Internet posting: http://www.aetherometry.com/demeo.html
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * DeMeo, James: "Summary Critique of the Correa S2-Series Aetherometry Publications", "Preliminary Report on a Bare-Metal-Box, 'Naked Accumulator' To-T Experiment, with Negative Results" and "OPEN LETTER to Paulo Correa, Alexandra Correa and Malgosia Askanas", Sept. and Dec. 2001, Internet posting: http://www.orgonelab.org/correas.htm
* Gardner, Martin: Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? Debunking Pseudoscience, W. W. Norton, NY, 2001. (Contains numerous false statements and misrepresentations regarding orgonomy.)
* Makavejev, Dusan: WR Mysteries of the Organism, VHS Film, Facets Video, 2001. DVD version released, Criterion Collection, 2007. See the critical review by DeMeo, 2007.
* Malgosia, Askanas: "Expose of the Secret and Not-So-Secret Misery of (An)Orgonomy and Reichianism..." Internet posting: http://www.aetherometry.com/expose.html
2002:
* Blumenau, Kurt: "Surf's up: Orgone but not forgotten", Milford Daily News, 3 November 2002.
* Correa, Paulo: "Pulse of the Planet Taken To Task", Internet posting: http://www.aetherometry.com/PP5.html ("revised" version 2004: http://www.aetherometry.com/publications/direct/PP5.pdf )
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * DeMeo, James: "More Attacks from the Aetherometry Web Site" (regarding Pulse of the Planet), Internet posting, contained in: http://www.orgonelab.org/correas.htm
REBUTTAL/ANALYSIS * DeMeo, James: "Special Note on the Video Documentary: Rain in the Desert", The Willful Stealing of Other People's Work, and Betrayal of Truth: The Case of John Trettin and Beate Freihold of the I.O.O." http://www.orgonelab.org/trettin.htm
* Pietikainen, Petteri: "Utopianism in Psychology: The Case of Wilhelm Reich", Journal of History of the Behavioral Sciences, 38(2):157-175, Spring 2002.
2003:
* Correa, Paulo & Correa, Alexandra: "Auto-epitaph: How a Reichian zealot reneges on his faith", contained in McFinlay 2003, Akronos Publishing Internet posting: http://www.aetherometry.com/PP5_fallout.html
* Correa, Paulo & Correa, Alexandra: "The Serpent's Tooth and It's Egg (Or, How the Stupid are So Often Malicious)", Akronos Publishing Internet posting: http://www.aetherometry.com/serpent_index.html
* McFinlay, Laura: "Fallout from the Challenge to Pulse of the Planet #5", Akronos Publishing, Internet posting: http://www.aetherometry.com/PP5_fallout.html
2004:
* Blackledge, Catherine: The Story of V: A Natural History of Female Sexuality, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick (also Orion Group - Phoenix Pub.) 2004.
Contains a hiddeous slander of Reich's work on human sexuality, claiming that the porno film by Dusan Makavejev constituted a "propaganda film" made by Reich, which is false. This lie is used to tarnish Reich as a promoter of pornography. See the critical review by DeMeo, 2007.
2005:
* Spitzer, Robert L.: "An Examination of Wilhelm Reich's Demonstrations of Orgone Energy, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice, Vol.4, #1, Spring-Summer 2005. Internet posting: http://www.srmhp.org/0401/reich.html
* Spitzer, Robert L.: (attack article against Reich: title not known), The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2005.
2007:
* Bannai, Kyo: "Interior Monologue," Portland-Maine's City Magazine, Feb/March 2007.
* Turner, Christopher: Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How Renegade Europeans Conceived the American Sexual Revolution and Gave Birth to the Permissive Society, Harper Collins UK, Arbeiderspers Amsterdam, S. Fischer Germany, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, USA, 2007.
2008:
* Lewis-Kraus, Gideon: "Master of the Orgasm: A fresh look at the laughingstock of psychoanalysis", Nextbook, Feb. 2008. Internet posted:
http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/feature.html?id=771&message=
Also see the various comment letters defending Reich.
If you enjoyed and benefited from these materials, please consider to
purchase our publications on similar topics, or to
make a donation to the OBRL research fund.
Thank you!
Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory,
Inc.
A Non-Profit Science Research and
Educational Foundation, Since 1978
Greensprings Center, PO Box
1148
Ashland, Oregon 97520 USA
E-mail to: info(at)orgonelab.org
(Click or copy into your email program and insert the "@" symbol)
Return to Articles PageOur new web counter, installed July 1998:
This page, and all contents, Copyright (C)
by James DeMeo and the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory, Inc.
Return to Home Page