GENEVA (AP) - Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired—and arguably corrupted—millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102. Hofmann died Tuesday at his home in Burg im Leimental, said Doris Stuker, a municipal clerk in the village near Basel where Hofmann moved following his retirement in 1971.

For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended his invention.

“I produced the substance as a medicine. … It’s not my fault if people abused it,” he once said.

Albert Hofmann, father of drug LSD, dies in Switzerland

Michael Corbin (1956 -2008 )

William H. Kennedy [Author Lucifer’s Lodge: Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Catholic Church and Satanic Crime: A Threat in the New Millenium] reviews the life and career of his late friend Michael Corbin, host of A Closer Look who died March 18, 2008

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Remembering Michael Corbin

(Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP) Arthur C Clarke at home in Colombo last year

Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the science fiction writer, has died aged 90 in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, it was confirmed tonight.

Clarke, who had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome since the 1960s and sometimes used a wheelchair, died at 1:30am after suffering breathing problems, his personal secretary Rohan De Silva said.

“Sir Arthur passed away a short while ago at the Apollo Hospital [in Colombo]. He had a cardio-respiratory attack,” he said.

His valet, W. K. M. Dharmawardena, said that funeral arrangements would be finalised when his close family returned to the island from Australia.

Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke dies aged 90 - Times Online