Dr. Wilhelm Reich was condemned for unscientific claims by the Food and Drug Administration in 1956 because of his theories about sexual freedom and his discovery of an alleged "orgone" energy.

p. 361; some of Wilson's account of the suppression of Reich's ideas and work are slightly exaggerative: though an extensive store of Reich's books mentioning his concepts of orgone energy and the "orgone accumulators" of his laboratory were destroyed, the destruction of his equipment and books was not actually total.