gs dentists love to put in our teeth? Are we likely to have a mega-epidemic with some sort of superbug? Is mankind making a terrible mistake by transplanting wolves and grizzly bears across the United States?

In the fascinating new book, Suppressed Science, author Jack Phillips tackles these questions and many more as he probes the truth behind the façade of disinformation and misinformation

that is so much a part of what passes for modern science.

For example, some evidence indicates that the establishment theory that any dose of radiation causes cancer is wrong. Phillips, who studied chemical engineering at MIT and had a long career as a rocket scientist, explores this topic in one chapter in Suppressed Science. The key word in this area, says the maverick journalist, is “hormesis.”

Hormesis is a controversial theory that argues there is actually a benefit to health, or decrease in biological damage, from radiation at low doses.

In a study in Japan, says Phillips, it was found that a group of patients with lymphoma had an 84 percent survival rate after 14 years, having been treated with low doses of Xrays in addition to the standard chemotherapy. A control group who had only the regulation chemo had only 50 percent survival at the end of eight years. Unfortunately, the U.S. medical establishment has not seen fit to acknowledge this remarkable discovery.

Phillips also delves into reports in Germany and France of an unknown type of energy coming from the Earth, called geopathic energy, that some say can cause cancer, according to studies that have been covered up in the United States.

Dowsers, according to Phillips, can sometimes detect this harmful energy. One naturally wonders if there could be a hormesis effect in geopathic energy. However, since no one has learned how to quantify this energy, it would be difficult to research this angle.

In another chapter, Phillips explores the art of dowsing—using divining rods to locate sources of underground water.

Most mainstream scientists reject it. However, some progress has been made toward giving dowsing a scientific foundation, says Phillips. Dr. Elizabeth Jurka has found that the brains of dowsers, when dowsing, show four different types of brainwaves, as if the individuals were asleep and awake at the same time. And another scientist, Dr. Zaboj V. Harvalik, a former member of the von Braun team, concluded from his investigations that dowsing is based on a kind of magnetic perception that has its centers in the kidneys and pituitary gland. If these parts of the body are shielded against magnetism, he found, dowsers cannot effectively dowse.

This only scratches the surface of the suppressed science that Phillips writes about. Other topics include: Do we have global warming, or is that an establishment myth? Do we really have global cooling? Are we heading into the next ice age? Can hurricanes be accurately predicted? Can water come from solid rocks like in the Bible?

Phillips, who has spent a lifetime in science, has put together a truly remarkable book that even the layman can enjoy. In other words, you don’t have to be a scientist yourself to follow his intriguing accounts. Suppressed Science opens up a whole new world for readers when compared to the ignorance and arrogance that passes for establishment science today.

Suppressed Science (softcover, #1506, $16.95, 168 pages) by Jack Phillips, is available from FIRST AMENDMENT BOOKS, 645 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Suite 100, Washington, D.C. 20003. To order by Visa or MasterCard, call FAB and AFP toll-free at 1-888-699-6397.