Letters to C&EN's Editor: The good, the bad, and the ugly

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Rudy M. Baum, r_baum@acs.org, Editor-in-Chief, Chemical & Engineering News, American Chemical Society, 1155 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington, DC 20036
The readers of Chemical & Engineering News - that is, the members of ACS - are a marvelously diverse collection of professionals. The letters they write to the editor of C&EN reflect that diversity. In this talk, I will provide examples of the erudite, contentious, complimentary, angry, dismissive, and sometimes obsessive letters I have received in my tenure as Editor-in-Chief of the “newsmagazine of the chemical world.”