he himself admits to keeping the company of occultists during his tenure at Miskatonic university. On his disastrous trip to the Antarctic, a cocktail of stress and altitude sickness caused a type of delirium, and the seeds which the occultists had planted germinated and bloomed into a very strange story indeed. Consensus among academics is that we should forgive the good Dr. Dyer his embarrassment, and that posterity aught to focus upon his more serious works.

Francis Wayland Thurston, on the other hand, was clearly in the clutches of a manic delusion similar to those which possess modern day conspiracy theorists and UFO enthusiasts. In the months preceding his death he collected numerous disparate news clippings, police records and private testimonials, and then wove them together into a schizophreniccorrespondent for NBC News from 1940–1950, and was heard on Morgan Beatty News of the World over 181 stations.

Awards
Dietz was recognized many times during his career for his contributions to science journalism. For "coverage of science at the tercentenary of Harvard University" in 1936, with Scripps-Howard, he shared the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting with writers for four other publishers. He also received the B. F. Goodrich Award for distinguished public service (1940), the Westinghouse Distinguished Science Writers Award (1946), the Lasker Award for medical journalism (1954), and the James T. Grady Award from the American Chemical Society (1961).

He received honorary degrees from Western Reserve (D. Litt., 1948) and from Bowling Green State University (1954).

References

External links
 David Dietz papers at Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center
 

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