We would also like to place on record the following further points:
(i) many cell biologists do not agree with our conclusions, but few have cast doubt on the evidence we have adduced;
(ii) it is our conclusion, not our assumption, that many of the structures visualised by electron microscopy must be artefacts;
(iii) so far, only one public debate of our views has taken place. Our offer to a public debate of current views about cell structure on equal terms before any scientific audience at any mutually convenient time (Hillman & Sartory, 1978 a, b) remains open indefinitely and for all countries;
(iv) no member of any audience or any reader of our publications has taken issue with our assertion that it would be impossible to construct a threedimensional model of a living cell based on any electron micrograph of a whole cell, in which the model would show how intracellular movements could occur (Hillman & Sartory, 1977b).
Author(s): Harold Hillman, Peter Sartory
Edition: First
Publisher: Packard
Year: 1980
Language: English
Pages: 58
City: Chichester
Tags: Cellular structure,
Preface 5
Introduction; Understanding the living cell 11
The structure of the generalised cell 13
The nature of artefact 23
Production of images by light and electron microscropes 29
Critique of the current view 35
The real structure of the living cell; implications of present considerations 79
Postscript 86
List of references 88
Appendix 1 Definitions 98
Appendix 2 Problems of interpretation of experiments 99
Appendix 3 List of textbooks showing the 'unit' membrane, and the attachment of the endoplasmic reticulum to the nuclear and cell membrane 102
Author index 104
Subject index 108
