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Nobel prize-winning biologist and author James D. Watson admitted earlier this week to having served on a secret Presidential chemical and biological warfare (CBW) advisory panel from...
...Harvard biologist left the panel in 1964 because he felt, "the decisions we were being asked to make were primarily political not scientific." In an interview earlier this week, Watson said that he thought the government's CBW programs should be discontinued because "they are not a good way of winning wars...Militarily they're a waste of time...
Although the Harvard biologist indicated in the interview earlier this week that he played a minor and devil's advocate role on the CBW panel, one top PSAC official said in a slightly sarcastic tone yesterday, "it's very interesting that Professor Watson would give this view of his role...
Epstein decided that the real aim of introductory biology, at least for non-science majors, must be simply to let the student "know what a biologist does when he's doing biology." The student who understands that, he reasoned, will appreciate the nature of the creative activity involved. So Epstein, 48, fashioned a new "upsidedown" course in which he plunged his students into a detailed examination of one of his own research papers. He spent a week answering questions about the terms used, three weeks helping students to figure out how he had gone about the research and reached...
...Harvard Biologist Carroll Williams, once Sláma's senior associate in juvenile hormone research, foresees practical applications of the Czech method "probably within five or six years." Although DMF itself affects the sterility of only a few insect species, Williams points out that other juvenile hormone-like chemicals can be used in the same way to sterilize a wide variety of insect pests. "The day may be near at hand," he says, "when we can do in individual insect pests such as the housefly, mosquito and boll weevil...