Talk:J. I. Rodale

Comments
Isn't he the author of "the Synonym Finder"? It's a remarkable book and would (if that's indeed the same J.I. Rodale) deserve a mention. Friskpeppermint 04:44, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that was his, so I added it.

I also made some changes which I think improve the grammar, and clarify points. (For instance, if Prevention started publication in 1950, that was not 'long before' the late 1960s.)

I also cut the point about 'few interested' in alternative health - I don't have figures handy, but I think even in the 50s Prevention's circulation may have reached above a million. Which still might be considered a 'few' relative to the whole US population, so if someone else would rather return that phrasing, I'd accept it.G34j 13:43, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Raw foodism
Martin Gardner's Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science describes Rodale as a raw foodist, which the article doesn't mention. Is he known for that viewpoint, or did Gardner just dig up an isolated quote? Here's the relevant paragraph (p. 224 of the 1957 edition):
 * ''Even more extreme than the vegetarians are the "raw food" fanatics who rail against the eating of cooked "dead" foods. "No animal eats cooked food," writes Jerome I. Rodale of Emmaus, Pennsylvania, a statement with which one must heartily agree. "Man is the only creature that does," he continues. "It is a known fact that cats thrive much better on raw rather than cooked meat."

--Delirium (talk) 08:14, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Died on stage?
I don't have a source, so I won't edit, for now. But JI Rodale did not die on stage. He died in the green room, waiting to go on.

I was an Emmaus resident in 1972, and this was a well known fact from contemporary news reports.

Dick Cavett may sincerely remember it that way, but he had his own mental problems in the late 1970s, and his memory is not reliable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.81.129.194 (talk) 20:28, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Rodale died on stage on the Dick Cavett Show, and Cavett talked about it a couple years ago in his column in the NY Times, "When That Guy Died on My Show", May 3, 2007. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bruvensky (talk • contribs) 06:15, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Dead link
This link is dead: Rodale Press official websiteS. Valkemirer (talk) 15:36, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Family names
Reference to Rodale's father's surname, Cohen, as "given upon [his] arriving in the United States" at Ellis Island" relies on an urban legend [see https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b5327267;view=2up;seq=250;skin=mobile]; ditto for unsourced assertion that "Cohen" was "a common surname given to Jews arriving at Ellis Island." Similarly, no reason or citation for identifying Rodale's mother's maiden name as "Jewish." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kiwi451 (talk • contribs) 15:35, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Request for change review
Someone please review the changes since Special:diff/1088529153. They appear to remove sourced information that could be viewed as negative or discrediting without any reason. Pinging @Amourfouineyes because they are involved. P HANTOM T ECH (talk) 23:50, 16 June 2022 (UTC)


 * The editing by Amourfouineyes was outrageous, they were deleting massive junks of text, removing anything critical of Rodale. I have re-added the deleted material. This type of white-washing is pure vandalism and has no place on Wikipedia. It appears this user was also adding copyrighted material. Psychologist Guy (talk) 20:19, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Agree, unacceptable. --StellarNerd (talk) 20:28, 22 June 2022 (UTC)