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The Suppression of Unorthodox Science 243
medical profession did not believe that it worked, and labelled it quackery.
In 1954 the FDA ordered his [Reich's] hardcover books banned from
circulation and his softcover books, including all his periodicals, burned.
It also ordered him to stop making and distributing orgone accumulators.
For refusing to obey the injunction against publishing, Reich was sentenced
to two years in jail. He died in prison in 1957, shortly before he
would have been eligible for parole.
STILL IGNORED BY MAINSTREAM
Years later, mainstream science has not accepted bions or Reich's more
important findings regarding the atmosphere. An orgone accumulator sits
in the St. Louis Museum of Quackery. However, small groups in several
countries carry on the work. Some European health practitioners openly
use orgone accumulators. A scientist and former weather forecaster, Dr.
Charles R. Kelley, wrote A New Method of Weather Control in 1960 and
published the only periodical related to Reich's work in the years just after
Reich's death, up until 1965. Another of Reich's students, the late
Elsworth F. Baker, M.D., founded the American College of Orgonomy
and began the Journal of Orgonomy about a decade after Reich's death.
Headquarters of the small college are now in Princeton, New Jersey. It
consists of a group of academics—mostly psychiatrists. The Wilhelm
Reich museum at Rangeley, Maine, is open to the public in summer.
Unfortunately, his will specified that his archives be sealed in a vault until
the year 2007. He hoped that a new generation would seriously look at his
work without feeling the need to squash it.
Over the years, some of Reich's publicly-stated views, such as his
McCarthy-era accusations that certain government agents were Red
Fascists, his claims of UFO-related experience, or his advocacy of adolescent
sexual freedom, have been an embarrassment to followers who
otherwise want to carry on his work. Some of them claim that, in his last
few years of his life, Reich's loneliness and the cumulative effects of his
experiences became too heavy. From around 1955 until his death in 1957,
says biographer Boadella, "the paranoid ideas ran alongside perfectly
rational concepts and insights."
The best of Reich's discoveries live on, although not publicized in
mainstream media. A handful of individuals in various countries have
continued to learn about "etheric weather modification." Such experimentation
with atmospheric processes is not to be taken lightly, according
to practitioners. In fact, they say that irresponsible cloudbusting operations
can contribute to destructive weather instead of restoring the weather's
natural rhythms.
There had been a unifying thread spun by Reich's varied research; most