AS YOU LIKE IT

I have developed something of a reputation for criticizing freely and frequently at our meetings and in my writings. You say you like this a nd find it useful and entertaining. As you like it, you are welcome to more of it. My comments and criticisms are presented under the follow ing headings: (1) criticize at your peril; (2) how it all started (unj ustly accused); (3) abbreviations (a source of perennial aggravation, confusion, and waste of time); (4) mysterious bodies in mesotheliomas; (5) call a crystal a ''crystal,'' not a ''crystalloid''; (6) electron microscopy-a study of osmium artifacts; (7) length-to-diameter ratio of microvilli (mission impossible); (8) lamellar bodies (a popular but debased term); (9) amyloid filaments, not fibers; (10) filaments and microtubules do not branch; (11) there is no such thing as pseudomelan osis; (12) botched histochemistry (just about every gastrointestinal t ract pigment was misdiagnosed by histochemistry); (13) intranuclear Ru ssell bodies, not ''Dutcher bodies''; and (14) nuclear pores and virus -like particles (a new development in an old farce).