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1958 Survey of 13,000 adolescent boys in Philadelphia who had been vaccinated, 7.5% were associated with crime. 1958 Beijing integrates external financial affairs with top British drug running firms in Hong Kond and Macao. 1958 United States establishes NASA, with internal provision that any sign of extraterrestrial life dis- covered will be suppressed. 1958 Time magazine reports that a Harvard biochemist and his assistants had been working for 10 years, bankrolled by the Sugar Research Foundation, to discover a way to prevent sugar causing dental decay. No remedy found. 1958 Outgoing President of the Gerontological Society, Dr. A. Lansing, muses “finding a cure for can- cer and heart disease would be a major financial disaster which would bankrupt the social security sys- tem and the insurance companies. ”” Prevention, J.L. Rodale, 11/1961. 1959 A breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence occurs from Cornell psychologist Frank Rosenblatt, who designs a neural network called a “perceptron” that could be “trained” to perform simple classifications of visual patterns. It would have a great impact on the field of AI. Researchers turned their backs on conventional AI algorithms to build perceptrons and similar neural nets in an attempt to expand on pat- tern recognition capabilities. In the mid-1960's other work would define what perceptrons could not do, when Minsky and Papert publish Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry. 1959 In the report of the proceedings of the 3rd Medical-Dental Conference on the Evaluation of Fluo- ridation, held on March 7, 1959, in New York City, the committee concluded that “It is apparent that the practice of fluoridation is not the simple, trustworthy procedure that the promoting authorities have given the profession and the public to believe.” Added to the lack of control of fluorides at the consum- ers tap are these major uncertainties: the gross variation in individual water consumption, the varied intake of fluorides in food and the fluoride intake from atmospheric and occupational exposure. These unpredictable issues make meaningless any talk about “controlled individual fluorine intake.” Most, if not all of this research has been buried by the authorities, who maintain glibly that “fluoride compounds are safe in the water supply.” 384 Appendix F: General Chronology of Events 1958 Cameron’s MK ULTRA report devoted to psychic driving. Sub-project 68. 1958 NASA created with charter to prevent ET information from public. 1958 Delaney Act on Food Additives Enacted into law. 1958 Bilderberger meeting in Buxton, England. 1958 Microchip released onto the market. 1958 Russia launches first “space satellites.” 1958 U.S. launches moon rocket, but never reaches destination. 1958 Space probes reveal radiation belts around the Earth. 1958 John Birth Society organized. 1958 Nelson Rockefeller elected Governor of New York. 1958 U.S. Government burns papers of Wilhelm Reich in New York City. 1958 Food and Drug Act of 1958 took up use of irradiation, defined as “additive.” 1959 Attempted assassination of Senator Bircher of Ohio and Governor Almond of Virginia. 1959 The U.S. launches Pioneer 4, which passes within 37,500 miles of the Moon and returns radiation data in March 1959. Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation