So, can someone point me to the medical journal/study

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116. I think it's (semi) relevant in a related way

This is not about changing or evolving on policy positions. Everybody does that. These early writings (and they're not the musings of a youth--he was in his thirties) could be used to question character and judgment, not positions. Orgone boxes and belief in an orgasm-cancer relationship were not even close to being mainstream ideas in the early 70s. The ideas of Wilhelm Reich (which date back to the 1930s) were pretty fringe back then, resuscitated for purposes of satire. We probably all remember the orgone box in Woody Allen's Sleeper, but fewer probably remember the Reichian satire in Dušan Makavejev's WR: Mysteries of the Organism. (I remember it well!) For Sanders to have taken any of this seriously at that time suggests someone a little too serious and a little too gullible.

That's all I'm saying. I'm not saying it would be accurate or fair. I'm saying it could be used to raise questions about judgment. So all the attempts to draw parallels to other politicians changing positions over the years are not the point. The point is, enough of us boomers were around in the early 1970s to remember some of these wacky ideas, and some may remember that while they laughed at them, Bernie was taking them seriously. And they may wonder.