Bibliographic record
Abstract
It is rare that while digging in the archives you find an unpublished manuscript that is both candid in its genuine portrayal of a set of events, and historically tempered with sympathy, honesty, and a desire to stimulate political action.Fannie Kahan's abandoned manuscript is such a gem.Buried in her brother's files on peyote, mescaline, and the Native American Church, this manuscript was originally intended for readers in the 1960s.Owing to the support of her daughter, Barbara Kahan, and niece, Miriam Hoffer, I gained access to this original manuscript and began piecing together its bibliographic past alongside the history of the Native American Church in Canada.Fannie did not leave behind a trail of her own acknowledgments, but we can safely surmise that she would have thanked her collaborators: her brother, Abram Hoffer, and his colleagues Humphry Osmond, Duncan Blewett, and Teodoro Weckowicz, whose work and contributions are described in detail in the introduction.Fannie's commitment to social justice, and in particular, her concern for people considered marginalized and suffering from mental health challenges, addictions, or other illness, would have undoubtedly been included in her acknowledgments alongside, perhaps, an appreciation for how some of those features have been understood or reconciled within an Indigenous context.Devoted to her family, Fannie would have thanked her husband Irwin Kahan, who was a trusted sounding board for all of Fannie's writing projects, and children Barbara, Meldon, and Sharon (ages 12, 10, and 3 respectively in 1963), who often kept Fannie company while she wrote.The Saskatchewan Archives Board, Saskatoon Branch, has been extremely helpful in locating materials related to this project: thanks especially to Nadine Charabin, Bonnie Dahl, and Christine Charmboury.The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix provided permissions to use their extensive photograph collection, some of which you see in this book.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.048 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.380 | 0.287 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".