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...Biologist Barry Commoner offered a startling critique and a hotly disputed solution. "The efficiency with which we are using energy and capital is falling drastically," he said; since World War II the U.S. has "displaced labor with energy that runs machines that capital has bought" and done social damage in the process. For example, the petrochemical industry, he charged, produces goods that replace natural products and often have only marginal social,benefit. Plastic for heart valves, he said, is a socially valuable product; swizzle sticks...
First, it is clear that Trivers, a biologist specializing in evolutionary theory and social behavior, is a hot item. The biologists are worried that unless Harvard offers him a senior position soon, Trivers-whose work has been called fundamental to the development of sociobiology-will go somewhere else...
Egged on by Wald and his biologist wife, Ruth Hubbard, Cambridge's Mayor Alfred Velluci used the escalating DNA furor to badger his old foe, Harvard. He convened the city council in an effort to halt DNA research at the school. Said Velluci: "Something could crawl out of the laboratory, such as a Frankenstein." At the council's request, Harvard and M.I.T. agreed to a moratorium on P-3 research while an eight-member citizens' review board studied the issue. In February, the council overrode Velluci and passed an ordinance permitting recombinant DNA work to be resumed...
...public's anxiety, anger and skepticism have been reinforced by the exposure of many remarkably human frailties within the halls of science. Biologist Barry Commoner's Science and Survival, documenting an erosion of scientific integrity and denouncing official secrecy and lying about nuclear fallout, came in 1966 as merely an early ripple in a wave of muckraking that has washed away the glowing image of the scientist as some kind of superman. Scientists now appear to be as fallible as the politicians with whom they increasingly consort. In Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena, two academic...
...most heartening aspects of the new society, Stanford University Biologist Paul Ehrlich believes, is the speed with which it has come about. "It indicates that attitudes and customs are not so deeply ingrained that they cannot change rather quickly," he notes. "Ten years ago, we believed that the attitudes of women and the kinds of lives they lived would be something that had to change slowly, over decades. Actually there was a remarkably swift change between 1968 and 1970. It indicates that other attitudes we believe to be deeply held could also change quickly. Like the attitude that Americans must...