21stC: Issue 4.2 Issue Special Section: Medicine and the Media

	Advanced physics, accelerated for mass consumption By Diana Steele Science and history: Do the claims of science transcend time and place? By D. Graham Burnett The music of the brain By Eric J. Lerner

	A field ripe for a "Breakthrough?" By Evan Cornog Training for the medical information complex By Kenneth K. Goldstein On the one hand, on the other hand: We're all guilty, at least some of the time By Janice Hopkins Tanne Editorial controversies and courage: pushing the envelope in medical journalism By Andrew A. Skolnick Five things a researcher should never say to a reporter By Robert Bazell

	Foodborne infections: Didn't anyone know? By Claudia M. Caruana The demon in the freezer? Alibek book returns spotlight to bioterror By Gerry O'Sullivan

	E-Mail/Letters Publisher's Corner: Peer review or public purview: When to publish controversial scientific reports By The Editors of 21stC Cartoon By Jim Borgman 21stC's Masthead