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===David Bohm and McCarthyism===

The user [[User:Nobs01|nobs]] states in one his interventions: ''I am assuming first off, that this in an unqualified list, being there are no citations on any of the biogarphies''. Is [[User:Nobs01|nobs]] expecting that the wikipedia page on [[MacCarthyismMcCarthyism]] itself should refer to the various biographies of the individuals cited? But I don't think it is necessary or advisable because, as [[User:Willmcw|Willmcw]] rightly says, the relevant information is availble in the respective pages.

Yet, on David Bohm I would like to quote [[Martin Gardner]], the eminent American skeptic: ''Bohm was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1917. When he obtained his doctorate in physics under J. Robert Oppenheimer, at the University of California, Berkeley, Bohm was a dedicated Marxist and a strong admirer of Lenin, Stalin, and the Soviet system. These opinions drew the fire of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Bohm's refusal to name names resulted in his indictment for contempt of Congress. Princeton University, which had hired him, let him go. No other university in America wanted him. After brief periods of teaching in Brazil, Israel, and England, he finally became a professor at London's Birkbeck College where he remained until he retired.'' (''David Bohm and Jiddo Krishnamurti'' - '''Skeptical Inquirer''', July, 2000).[[User:MANOJTV|MANOJTV]] 07:49, 8 September 2005 (UTC)